NY | Yayoi Kusama Private Viewing and the Opening of MoCA Westport

Image: Yayoi Kusama with Narcissus Garden, 1966

This event offers ArtTable members and friends the unique opportunity to view Yayoi Kusama’s Where the Lights in My Heart Goand Narcissus Garden at MoCA Westport, one week following the museum’s opening on September 22nd. To celebrate the museum’s opening and the first time these two works have been shown in tandem on the East Coast, members will hear directly from Amanda Innes, Executive Director, MoCA Westport, formerly the Westport Arts Center and enjoy a private after hours reception.

Throughout her career, Yayoi Kusama has developed a practice, which, though it shares affiliations with movements such as Surrealism, Minimalism and Pop Art, resists any singular classification. Born in Matsumoto City, Japan, in 1929, she studied painting in Kyoto before moving to New York in the late 1950s, and became well known in the avant-garde world for her provocative happenings and exhibitions. Since then Kusama’s extraordinary artistic endeavours have spanned painting, drawing, collage, sculpture, performance, film, printmaking, installation and environmental art as well as literature, fashion and product design. In 2016, Kusama received the Order of Culture, one of the highest honours bestowed by the Imperial Family in Japan. Kusama is the first woman to be honoured with the prestigious medal for drawings and sculptures. Kusama lives and works in Tokyo, where the Yayoi Kusama Museum opened in October 2017. Over the past decade there have been museum exhibitions of Kusama’s work enjoyed by millions of visitors in Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Denmark, England, Finland, France, Indonesia, Japan, Mexico, Norway, Russia, South Korea, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, and the United States. For more information on these installations see here.

Getting to MoCA Westport:
By Train: Directions from the Westport Train Station:
Taxis are readily available at the Westport Train Station.

We recommend: 
To Westport:
1562 Train leaving New York Grand Central at 5:46 PM, arriving at Westport at 6:53 PM

Return to New York: 
1591 Train leaving Westport at 8:28 PM and arriving at Grand Central at 9:51 PM
1595 Train leaving Westport at 9:22 PM and arrving at Grand Central at 10:46 PM

By Car: 
Connecticut I-95 exit 17:
From New Haven or New York, turn left off ramp, WAC is approx. 1.4 miles on right.
Merritt Parkway, exit 41:
From New Haven, turn right off ramp, 2 miles on left.
From New York, turn left off ramp, 1.8 miles on left.

Read this: “Yayoi Kusama ‘Infinity Mirror Room’ Will Alight in Connecticut This Fall”

Thank you to Amanda Innes, Executive Director, MoCA Westport, formerly the Westport Arts Center for organizing this event. 

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