The Cincinnati Art Museum will present one of Yayoi Kusama’s Infinity Mirror Rooms for the first time this summer, the museum announced April 15. “Yayoi Kusama: All the Eternal Love I Have for the Pumpkins” (2016) opens July 17 and runs through October 18, 2026, in the Sara M. and Michelle Vance Waddell Gallery and Manuel and Rhoda Mayerson Gallery.

The installation places polka-dotted yellow gourds amid floor-to-ceiling mirrors, creating the effect of an endless field of glowing pumpkins in which visitors become part of the work. The exhibition will also include roughly a dozen pumpkin paintings by Kusama completed between 1990 and 2004, on loan from the Masterworks Foundation. Two visitors may enter the mirror room simultaneously.

Museum Director Cameron Kitchin said the institution is “proud to bring her most essential immersive environment to our region, in partnership with the Dallas Museum of Art.” Tickets are $17 for general admission, with discounts for students, seniors, and children; museum members receive exclusive preview access July 14–16. All visits require advance online reservations. Free entry is available on Thursdays from 5 to 8 p.m. and during select Art After Dark evenings.

Source: Cincinnati Art Museum