Infinite attraction: The 'radical connectivity' of Yayoi Kusama lands in Los Angeles as Infinity Mirror Rooms take their place at the Broad museum
LOS ANGELES - Blame it on Katy Perry. Or maybe Adele.
The popularity of Yayoi Kusama's trippy, immersive Infinity Mirror Rooms - which both pop stars have Instagrammed and which subsequently became selfie magnets on social media internationally - has reached a feverish peak.
Six of the rooms anchor the exhibition "Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors," opening Saturday at the Broad museum, each chamber no larger than a modest storage shed and equipped with mirrors, lights and sculptural objects. But as the exhibition has traveled from the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., to the Seattle Art Museum and now L.A., these Infinity Mirror Rooms have generated "Hamilton"-scale hype every step of the way.
During its 11-week run at the Hirshhorn, the museum broke attendance records and saw its membership climb to more than 10,000 people from just 150. When the Broad unleashed 50,000 advance tickets online in September, the $25 passes
