Yayoi Kusama Museum new exhibit unveils a ‘ladder to heaven’
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The first exhibition at the Yayoi Kusama Museum to open since the artist’s death in August begins with an installation titled “Life” in the museum’s first-floor lobby.The allusion to mortality continues upward, with the fourth floor devoted to a single light installation, “Longing for Heaven.” The exhibition ends with a rooftop installation titled “Ladder to Heaven.”The show’s title, too, sounds prophetic: “The Light Spreads Out, and Glittering Things Start Appearing All Around Me,” a direct…
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