Yayoi Kusama Is Bringing Her Art to the Beach This Summer
Yayoi Kusama, arguably the net’s most loved artist, has work on display in big apple town all over again. It's a chunk you have in all likelihood seen before — however this time, it is in a chunk of a peculiar area. On July 1st, Kusama’s site-precise installation Narcissus lawn (1966–present) became the 1/3 generation of Rockaway!, a free public art experience supplied by means of MoMA PS1. Its domestic at the Rockaway Peninsula, a sandy spit of land in southern Queens, is possibly better called a beach getaway for weekending New Yorkers than as an art vacation spot. Narcissus lawn, consisting of 1,500 chrome-like reflected spheres, is now on show at fort Tilden, protecting the ground of a former train storage dating from the area's days as an active military base. The reflective silver balls create, in effect, a sea of their own — simply steps from the ocean. The storage-became-artwork-space became one in all many homes inside the location broken by way of typhoon Sandy in 20...