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A few photos from the 2018 exhibition at the Art Gallery of Ontario, including an interactive portion where visitors put dots on objects.
Oh, well played!
Still sad, but well played.
I think her work was a lot more then her famed polkadots, I feel like the title doesn't do her justice.
I saw an overview her work in Bilbao and what struck me the most were a couple of school classes, kids aged maybe 7 or 8 who really loved her work and were all sitting down in the gallery space absorbing it 🤗😊
It was really magical stuff. I don't normally bother with things that have timed entrances and long lines but it was so worth it to get to go inside a few Infinity Mirror Rooms. The AGO acquired one of them after the exhibition, so there is a lot more opportunities for people in the area to experience it.
Yay for kids in galleries! I'll take a few rambunctious kids over some know-it-all offering unsolicited interpretation to strangers any day.
I heard the hype. I read about her. I got tickets to see her exhibit at the AGO. I sat down in an infinity room and it was pretty impactful. I want to build one in my house.
Broooo no way
What an awful week
Why are the deaths always clustered? Horrible.
What's the censored thing supposed to be? A big dotted dildo?
Yes.
(It's people, I blurred them out but not the others because it's a front on face shot and because it was distracting from the rest of the work).
"...repeated phallic shaped forms..." That's probably a yes...
This sucks, caught her work in LA and DC and her walk in exhibits are phenomenal.
Dammit.
Meh, another old racist died. Anyway.
Kusama’s apology, which came the day before her show, “Yayoi Kusama: Infinite Love,” opened at the museum, referred to passages from her 2002 autobiography, “Infinity Net,” in which she described Black people as “primitive, hyper-sexualized beings.”
