• Become a Member
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • LinkedIn
  • News
  • Art
  • Books
  • Film
  • Performance
  • Opinion
  • Comics
  • Instagram
  • Mastodon
  • LinkedIn
  • Facebook
  • Tumblr
  • Features
  • Previews
  • Reviews
  • Interviews
  • Opportunities
  • News
  • Art
  • Books
  • Film
  • Performance
  • Opinion
  • Comics
  • Instagram
  • Mastodon
  • LinkedIn
  • Facebook
  • Tumblr
  • Features
  • Previews
  • Reviews
  • Interviews
  • Opportunities
  • Become a Member
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • LinkedIn
  • News
  • Art
  • Books
  • Film
  • Performance
  • Opinion
  • Comics
  • Instagram
  • Mastodon
  • LinkedIn
  • Facebook
  • Tumblr
  • Features
  • Previews
  • Reviews
  • Interviews
  • Opportunities
Skip to content
Hyperallergic

Hyperallergic

Sensitive to Art & its Discontents

Membership

Yayoi Kusama

Posted inNews

A Cardboard Box Alternative to Yayoi Kusama’s Infinity Rooms

by Claire Voon December 6, 2017

Artist Jon Burgerman is offering people queueing outside David Zwirner a more modest and less immersive experience: the “Infinity Box.”

Posted inArt

When Art Refuses to Let Go

Avatar photo by Thomas Micchelli September 23, 2017September 23, 2017

Delirious at the Met Breuer is an exhibition filled with beautiful but comparatively polite works by habitually transgressive artists.

Posted inOpinion

7 Thoughts About Ivanka Trump’s Photo in Kusama’s “Obliteration Room”

Avatar photo by Hrag Vartanian May 9, 2017

And contemporary art continues to be part of the Jivanka brand.

Posted inNews

Museumgoer Breaks a Kusama Pumpkin, Allegedly in Pursuit of a Selfie [UPDATED]

by Claire Voon February 27, 2017November 2, 2017

According to museum visitors, someone attempting to take a selfie in Yayoi Kusama’s newest mirror room fell into the gleaming patch of pumpkin sculptures and broke one of them.

Posted inArt

Immersed in Yayoi Kusama’s Lonely Labyrinths and Infinite Worlds

by Claire Voon February 23, 2017February 23, 2017

Yayoi Kusama’s retrospective at the Hirshhorn Museum brings together the largest number of mirror rooms ever, as they all appear to extend infinitely into distant darkness.

Posted inArt

Visiting the Museum of Modern Art at Sunrise

by Elyssa Goodman October 24, 2016October 21, 2016

For those who wake up hungry for art, the Museum of Modern Art is opening its doors at 7:30am every Wednesday in October.

Posted inIn Brief

A New-Wave ‘Little Mermaid’ Illustrated by Yayoi Kusama

by Claire Voon August 23, 2016

If you most vividly remember The Little Mermaid as told by Disney, with the mermaid princess and her prince sailing off together beneath a rainbow, now is the time to revisit Hans Christian Andersen’s original fairy tale, which is much, much darker.

Posted inArt

From Fluxus to Selfies, Photographs that Blur the Performative and the Real

by Kirsten O'Regan May 13, 2016May 13, 2016

LONDON — Five figures stand cocooned in the radiating steel cables of the Brooklyn Bridge — four of them are naked and covered in painted spots, hanging out beneath a banner that reads “SELF-OBLITERATION.”

Posted inArt

A Los Angeles Mega-Gallery Opens with Museum Ambitions

by Matt Stromberg March 11, 2016March 14, 2016

LOS ANGELES — Hauser Wirth & Schimmel, the local outpost of mega-gallery Hauser & Wirth, will open its massive hybrid art space to the public on Sunday.

Posted inArt

A Mother Lode of a Show About Motherhood

Avatar photo by Benjamin Sutton October 29, 2015October 29, 2015

MILAN — The most startling pairing in The Great Mother, an exhibition that tracks the iconography of motherhood in art and popular culture from 1900 to 2015, is a sculptural stand-off between Sarah Lucas and Thomas Schütte.

Posted inArt

Getting Lost in David Altmejd’s Hall of Mirrors

by Joseph Nechvatal February 4, 2015February 4, 2015

PARIS — Young New York-based Canadian artist David Altmejd’s remarkably ambitious retrospective exhibition of sculpture at the Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris played pithily with many current intellectual strands.

Posted inNews

Art Movements

Avatar photo by Benjamin Sutton December 26, 2014December 26, 2014

This week in art news: a Mexican museum’s Yayoi Kusama retrospective is mobbed, Tate must reveal the details of BP sponsorship, and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts picks up a trove of Constructivist photographs.

Posts navigation

Newer posts 1 2 3 4 5 Older posts
Yale University Press Presents The Art of Colour: The History of Art in 39 Pigments
Sponsored

Yale University Press Presents The Art of Colour: The History of Art in 39 Pigments

Kelly Grovier discusses his book on the history of pigments in a new podcast episode, making the case for how myths and science can enrich how we experience art.

Hyperallergic
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • LinkedIn

Hyperallergic is a forum for serious, playful, and radical thinking about art in the world today. Founded in 2009, Hyperallergic is headquartered in Brooklyn, New York.

  • Home
  • Latest
  • Podcast
  • Store
  • About
  • Support Us
  • Advertise
  • Contact Us
  • Sign In
  • Membership
  • Newsletters
  • Submissions
  • Careers
© 2023 Hyperallergic. Proudly powered by Newspack by Automattic Privacy Policy