Brent and I made a visit to The Broad in Los Angeles this summer — a big treat was getting to experience Yayoi Kusama’s Infinity Mirror Room, which they let you enter alone (or in very small groups if you prefer) for just one minute, with a purchased ticket. From The Broad:
Yayoi Kusama’s immersive installation Infinity Mirrored Room—The Souls of Millions of Light Years Away (2013) is a mirrored room with LED lights that you can physically enter for up to one minute.
“Infinity Mirrored Room + General Admission” tickets include access to Yayoi Kusama’s Infinity Mirrored Room and our third floor galleries, which include:
Takashi Murakami Featured Installation
Jean-Michel Basquiat Expansive Presentation
Andy Warhol Expansive Presentation
Roy Lichtenstein Expansive Presentation
Lots of Jeff Koons pieces in the collection
I’ve seen Koons’ Tulips twice now — the other time was at the Wynn Hotel in Las Vegas:
There are five Tulips installations total: the others are outside the Guggenheim Bilbao, at the Fondazione Prada in Milan, and one owned by the Viktor Pinchuk Foundation (so in Kyiv, maybe).
The Bouquet of Tulips in Paris is larger than these and serves as a memorial.
Koons’ Balloon Dog (Blue)
Michael Jackson and Bubbles
and they had pieces that didn’t feel SO Jeff Koons, like this of Buster Keaton:
The museum’s description of this piece:
Jim Beam — J.B. Turner Train was the centerpiece of Jeff Koons’s gallery debut of the Luxury and Degradation series. The works focus on the discord between the marketing of alcohol as a luxury product associated with leisure, sex, and sophistication, and the often destructive, ugly, and unintended effects of drinking to excess. The outside appearance and promise of something are in opposition to its interior life and meaning. Cast in stainless steel, each of the seven train cars holds a fifth of bourbon. Koons takes Jim Beam’s collectible decanter train set and turns what the company promoted as a rare collectible object into a truly rare luxury object: an artwork. Inside, however, is the same common spirit available at every liquor store.
Lots of Warhol.
Single Elvis
Twenty Jackies
Ed Ruscha:
Ellsworth Kelly’s Green Blue Red:
A good amount of Basquiat too, including:
Some people were *loving* the Robert Therrien Under the Table, but for whatever reason it just felt like it should have been at the Ashley Furniture HQ. Just not the biggest Therrien fan (it’s me, I like minis better.) — but if you are, The Broad is having a special exhibit of his works going on right now.
Barbara Kruger
Cindy Sherman
Takashi Murakami, Clone X x Takashi Murakami – Astronaut
Jenny Holzer – Thorax
BTW the Jeff Koons Porcelain Series exhibit at the Gagosian in NY closes February 28 and I’d love to see his Kissing Lovers piece — still thinking of how terrific the Chris Antemann: An Occasional Craving exhibit at Dixon Gallery and Gardens in Memphis was last year.
