And here you thought the last of the Infinity Mirror hype was behind us.
The Broad has recently acquired Yayoi Kusama’s 2017 installation, Longing for Eternity. Unlike the Downtown museum’s existing twinkly piece, Infinity Mirrored Room—The Souls of Millions of Light Years Away, visitors won’t be able to step inside this new acquisition. Instead, they’ll peer into its LED-lined reflective interior through three portholes in the exterior (oh, the photo ops).
Longing for Eternity will be on display beginning March 17—yes, that’s tomorrow—as part of the museum’s regular (i.e. free) admission. The procedure to view it will be very similar to the one in place for the museums’s other Infinity Mirror Room: Once inside the lobby, you’ll check in at an iPad kiosk to join the first-come, first-served virtual queue. You can put your name down for one or both rooms, and you’ll receive a text 10 minutes before it’s your turn (or two separate texts if you join the queue for both rooms).
It’s not the only new addition to the museum: The Broad has also acquired L.A. artist Mark Bradford’s mural-scale painting Helter Skelter I, as well as his recent work I heard you got arrested today; Untitled, the museum’s first painting by Kerry James Marshall; and a 60-part photographic work by Sherrie Levine titled After Russell Lee: 1–60.
Free tickets to the Broad are available daily on its standby line (you can monitor the wait on Twitter at @thebroadstandby). You can also reserve time slots in advance (we suggest an early one if you hope to see the Infinity Mirror Rooms) on the first of the month at noon for reservations throughout the following month. And finally, the museum’s paid exhibition “Jasper Johns: Something Resembling Truth” runs through May 13 and includes general admission; there are still plenty of days with early tickets available throughout its run (for now).
Photographs: Yayoi Kusama, Longing for Eternity, 2017. Installation view, Yayoi Kusama: Festival of Life, David Zwirner, New York, 2017. Photo by Maris Hutchinson/EPW Studio. Image © Yayoi Kusama. Courtesy David Zwirner, New York; Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo/Singapore/Shanghai; Victoria Miro, London/Venice; YAYOI KUSAMA Inc.