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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 a...

In celebration of the summer, we’ve assembled a list of five international can’t-miss shows that illuminate the wonders the natural world.

Julie Mehretu Until 8 August at the Whitney Museum of American Art, 99 Gansevoort Street, Manhattan Julie Mehretu’s massive mid-career survey—which has travelled from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art—includes more than 70 paintings and works on paper that date from 1996 to today. It offers a chance for viewers to track the progression of Mehretu’s style from early pieces that focus more heavily on mapping and drawing to her sprawling abstractions with innumerable layers of visual information. Some of the most recent works on view also smartly deal with contemporary social issues, ...

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 no...

Many museums remain closed, but at least spring has sprung. This week’s Apollo Art Diary picks out four arty gardens to enjoy…  Yayoi Kusama’s artistic work owes much to her engagement with the natural world; as a child she would spend hours among the fields of her family’s seed nursery in Matsumoto. In this display at New York Botanical Garden (until 31 October), early works such as her  Narcissus Garden (1966) are installed amid the flowers; there are also two new monumental sculptures,  Dancing Pumpkin and I Want to Fly to the Universe, and her hallucinatory ‘obliteration...