{"id":1411,"date":"2022-01-23T14:03:40","date_gmt":"2022-01-23T06:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\/?p=1411"},"modified":"2022-01-23T14:03:40","modified_gmt":"2022-01-23T06:03:40","slug":"infinitely-dancing-hearts-hirshhorn-and-albright-knox-museums-jointly-acquire-kusama-infinity-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\/artist\/infinitely-dancing-hearts-hirshhorn-and-albright-knox-museums-jointly-acquire-kusama-infinity-room\/","title":{"rendered":"Infinitely Dancing Hearts: Hirshhorn and Albright-Knox Museums Jointly Acquire Kusama \u2018Infinity Room\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0<a id=\"auto-tag_hirshhorn-museum\" href=\"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\/\" data-tag=\"hirshhorn-museum\">Hirshhorn Museum<\/a>\u00a0and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., and the\u00a0<a id=\"auto-tag_albright-knox-art-gallery\" href=\"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\/\" data-tag=\"albright-knox-art-gallery\">Albright-Knox Art Gallery<\/a>\u00a0in Buffalo, New York, have jointly acquired\u00a0<a id=\"auto-tag_yayoi-kusama\" href=\"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\/\" data-tag=\"yayoi-kusama\">Yayoi Kusama<\/a>\u2019s\u00a0<em>Infinity Mirrored Room\u2014My Heart Is Dancing into the Universe<\/em>\u00a0(2018). One of the artist\u2019s more recent entries into her ongoing \u201cInfinity Mirrored Room\u201d series, the work will go on view at the Hirshhorn this spring and the Albright-Knox in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Like with other works in the series,<em>\u00a0Infinity Mirrored Room\u2014My Heart Is Dancing into the Universe\u00a0<\/em>is an immersive installation in which viewers enter a built environment which engulfs them with variously colored paper lanterns that are endlessly replicated by the work\u2019s namesake mirrors. Painted in black, these lanterns feature Kusama\u2019s signature dots in shades of blue, red, purple, orange and yellow, marking a sleek entry into the series.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement Albright-Knox director Janne Sir\u00e9n called Kusama \u201ca trailblazer and a visionary,\u201d adding that \u201cthis particular Room is transformational. It is emblematic of Kusama\u2019s kinetic use of color as well as her lifelong disruption of art viewership, as she asks us to see ourselves seeing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[<em>Why museums jointly acquiring major artworks has become a recent trend.<\/em>]<\/p>\n<p>Kusama began making her wildly popular \u201cInfinity Mirrored Rooms\u201d in 1965 with\u00a0<em>Infinity Mirror Room\u2014Phalli\u2019s Field\u00a0<\/em>in which a room filled with plush, irregular pillows printed in her trademark red dots were placed in a mirrored room. That iconic work, along with three other pieces by the artist, is now in the Hirshhorn\u2019s collection. Since then, Kusama has made some 20 other similar works, which are now widely popular around the world, drawing crowds and long lines.<\/p>\n<p>For decades, Kusama\u2019s work was underknown globally, but her art became an instant hit on Instagram, in particular the Infinity Mirrored Rooms, after important showings of her work, including the Hirshhorn\u2019s landmark 2017 traveling exhibition \u201cYayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors,\u201d which brought it 1.2 million visitors at the six institutions it made stops at.<\/p>\n<p><em>Infinity Mirrored Room\u2014My Heart Is Dancing into the Universe\u00a0<\/em>will debut at the Hirshhorn as part of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AtelierAuctionsg\">One with Eternity<\/a>: Yayoi Kusama in the Hirshhorn Collection,\u201d which is organized by Betsy Johnson, an assistant curator at the museum, and which will open later this year. The Albright-Knox\u2019s main building is currently closed for construction and renovation and will reopen later this year as the Buffalo AKG Art Museum, with the Kusama work going on view there in 2023. A different version of the same work, which is part of an edition of 3, has been on permanent display at the Crystal Bridges Museum in Arkansas since the museum acquired it in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, Hirshhorn director Melissa Chiu said, \u201cOur forthcoming exhibition places this recent work in the context of her early painting, sculptures and groundbreaking immersive work. We are grateful to partner with the Albright-Knox to bring this work to view on the National Mall as we celebrate our reopening.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source: https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0Hirshhorn Museum\u00a0and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., and the\u00a0Albright-Knox Art Gallery\u00a0in Buffalo, New York, have jointly acquired\u00a0Yayoi Kusama\u2019s\u00a0Infinity Mirrored Room\u2014My Heart Is Dancing into the Universe\u00a0(2018). One of the artist\u2019s more recent entries into her ongoing \u201cInfinity Mirrored Room\u201d series, the work will go on view at the Hirshhorn this spring and the Albright-Knox in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1412,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,13,7,4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1411","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artist","8":"category-auction","9":"category-events","10":"category-gallery","11":"category-latest-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Infinitely Dancing Hearts: Hirshhorn and Albright-Knox Museums Jointly Acquire Kusama \u2018Infinity Room\u2019 - Investable Art Auctioneer<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The\u00a0Hirshhorn Museum\u00a0and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., and the\u00a0Albright-Knox Art Gallery\u00a0in Buffalo, New York, have jointly acquired\u00a0Yayoi Kusama\u2019s\u00a0Infinity Mirrored Room\u2014My Heart Is Dancing into the Universe\u00a0(2018).\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\/artist\/infinitely-dancing-hearts-hirshhorn-and-albright-knox-museums-jointly-acquire-kusama-infinity-room\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Infinitely Dancing Hearts: Hirshhorn and Albright-Knox Museums Jointly Acquire Kusama \u2018Infinity Room\u2019 - 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