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A new art installation offers a stunning sensory experience that delights and transforms at every turn.
June 2021
The New York Botanical Garden (NYBG) has recently become even more magical with the addition of a Yayoi Kusama installation running through October 31. It is a stunning sensory art experience that delights and transforms at every turn.
Kusama’s creations are among the world’s most expensive and revered artworks her 1960 canvas
White No. 28 recently sold at auction for $7.1 million but in the beginning, she struggled to find her way after leaving her family’s plant and seeds nursery in Japan to try to make it as an artist in New York City. On display at NYBG are some of her earliest pencil sketches of plants, seeds, and flowers, which illustrate her passionate relationship to the natural world.
Julie Mehretu
Until 8 August at the Whitney Museum of American Art, 99 Gansevoort Street, Manhattan
Julie Mehretu’s massive mid-career survey which has travelled from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art includes more than 70 paintings and works on paper that date from 1996 to today. It offers a chance for viewers to track the progression of Mehretu’s style from early pieces that focus more heavily on mapping and drawing to her sprawling abstractions with innumerable layers of visual information. Some of the most recent works on view also smartly deal with contemporary social issues, as the process begins with photographs one started with police in riot gear following the killing of Michael Brown, for example, while another began with images of climate change-related firescapes. These images are then blurred and erased beyond recognition before paint and other materials are stacked on, and are then sanded and erased, creating a pentimento surface where older layers peer through