Ticket sales have been brisk in a pandemic-weary city hungry for more outdoor cultural events.
‘Kusama: Cosmic Nature,’ postponed by a year due to the coronavirus, will remain on view through Halloween.
NY garden show is a major success
Most of the artworks are outdoors and are big enough to enjoy while remaining socially distanced.
Visitors will want to wear their walking shoes; the show features multiple galleries, installations and gardens.
Elaborate flower displays complement some of the works, which are scattered over the 250-acre botanical garden in the Bronx.
The setting could not be more suitable for Kusama’s multifaceted works, all of which relate in various ways to the world of nature.
Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama has poured over a thousand mirrored balls into a pond and covered the trees of the New York Botanical Garden in polka dots as part of a park-wide exhibition.
The site-specific installations were created as part of the 2021 exhibition Kusama: Cosmic Nature, which has been creatively installed around the gardens in New York.
Top: Narcissus Garden forms part of the Kusama: Cosmic Nature exhibition. Above: Ascension of Polka Dots on the Trees was created by Yayoi Kusama
The show, which was postponed from last year due to the coronavirus pandemic, is open to visitors until 10 October.
By Margherita Cole on April 14, 2021
“Dancing Pumpkin,” 2020, The New York Botanical Garden, Urethane paint on bronze, 196 7/8 x 116 7/8 x 117 1/4 in., Collection of the artist. Courtesy of Ota Fine Arts and David Zwirner. Photo by Robert Benson Photography.
Since her early childhood, contemporary artist Yayoi Kusama has found creative inspiration in nature. From polka dot pumpkins to flower “obliterations,” she captures plantlife in her own distinctive style. Now, audiences will be able to see Kusama s colorful art installed outdoors in a new exhibition at the New York Botanical Garden. Entitled
KUSAMA: Cosmic Nature, this show features a comprehensive collection of the artist s nature-themed artwork many of which were created specifically for the event spread across the site s 250-acre landscape.
Bronx, NYâThe New York Botanical Garden (NYBG) announces the opening of its expansive 2021 exhibition, KUSAMA: Cosmic Nature, featuring work by internationally celebrated Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama. Postponed in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the exhibition includes four experiences debuting at the Botanical Garden. NYBG is the exclusive venue for KUSAMA: Cosmic Nature. On view April 10 through October 31, 2021, the exhibition is installed across the Gardenâs landscape, in and around the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory, and in the LuEsther T. Mertz Library Building. Advance, timed, limited-capacity tickets for the landmark presentation are required and on sale at nybg.org/kusama.
Yayoi Kusama s much-anticipated
Cosmic Nature exhibition is now open at the New York Botanical Garden in a riotous explosion of color and, of course, polka dots. Originally scheduled for 2020,
Cosmic Nature is the perfect analogy for how many of us feel this spring: closed off and pent up for the past year, we are ready to frolic out and about in a revelry of colors.
My Soul Blooms Forever is one of the sculptures on display inside the conservatory. Courtesy New York Botanical Garden
Set amidst the gardens, the exhibition is the first to deeply explore Kusama s relationship to nature. It s a setting that feels especially appropriate as the Japanese artist grew up sketching in her family s plant nursery in Matsumoto. There is a monumental