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.