London
Yayoi Kusama
Tate Modern
Bankside
January 25–May 27, 2012
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía
Calle de Santa Isabel, 52
May 11–September 18, 2011
Whitney Museum of American Art
99 Gansevoort Street
June 1–September 1, 2012
Centre Pompidou
Place Georges-Pompidou
October 19, 2011–January 9, 2012
Curated by Frances Morris
Now at the age of eighty-two, the maverick Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama will be the subject of a 150-work retrospective. Organized as a series of ambient clusters, the show presents different aspects and periods of Kusama’s six-decade career. Wols-like works from the late 1940s, the magnificent “Infinity Net” paintings of the late ’50s, “accumulations” and “self-obliteration” projects of the ’60s, a new mirrored “infinity corridor,” and other images made just this spring, rounded out by carbuncled furniture, painted bodies, visionary writing, scrapbooks, photographs, and clothes, all testify to the remarkable vitality of an oeuvre that spans the optical formalism of Zero and Nul and the psychosexual performance of Kembra Pfahler.