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The Arts Intel Report

A Cultural Compass
For the World Traveler
A Cultural Compass
For the World Traveler

Yayoi Kusama

Nov 9 – Dec 14, 2019
537 W 20th St, New York, NY 10011, United States

“Each and every one of us are polka dots,” the Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama said in 2018. “The sun, the moon, the earth and the stars are also polka dots.” In short, polka dots are it. Also, mushroom-like sculptures. David Zwirner will display entirely new work from Kusama—paintings, sculptures, and an immersive installation—as well as a new Infinity Mirror Room, a project Kusama debuted several decades ago, which uses mirrors to multiply her work into a dotty universe. —J.V.

Yayoi Kusama, With All My Love for The Tulips, I Pray Forever, 2012. Installation View, YAYOI KUSAMA ETERNITY OF ETERNAL ETERNITY, the National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan, 2012. Image © Yayoi Kusama. Courtesy of David Zwirner, New York; Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo/Singapore/Shanghai; Victoria Miro, London; Y A Y O I K U S A M A Inc