Although it can be intimidating to take kids to art museums, these museums have current art installations that will thrill kids of all ages. Colorful, quirky and interactive, these exhibitions will thrill the whole family.
Yayoi Kusama (Japanese, born 1929), Infinity Mirrored Room—The Souls of Millions of Light Years Away, 2013, wood, metal, mirrors, plastic, acrylic, rubber, LEDs, and water. Courtesy of David Zwirner, New York. © Yayoi Kusama.
Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors | High Museum, Atlanta
This touring exhibition has been referred to as the Hamilton of the art world. Previously sold out in cities from Washington, D.C., to Toronto to Cleveland, the captivating show is making its last stop on its multi-city tour at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Georgia.
The exhibition takes visitors on a once-in-a-lifetime journey through more than 60 years of Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama’s creative genius, focusing on the evolution of her iconic kaleidoscopic environments called Infinity Mirror Rooms. The exhibition features six rooms as well as additional large-scale installations, sculptures, paintings, works on paper, archival photographs and films from the early 1950s through the present. The 89-year-old artist, who is regarded as one of the most influential artists of the 20th century, is still very active in her Tokyo studio. New works in the exhibition include vibrantly colored paintings and the recently completed Infinity Room “All the Eternal Love I Have for the Pumpkins” (2016), filled with dozens of Kusama’s signature bright-yellow, dotted pumpkin sculptures.
Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors will be on view at the High from November 18, 2018 through February 17, 2019.
Bruce Munro at Montalvo: Stories in Light | Montalvo Arts Center, Silicon Valley
Montalvo Arts Center, located on 175 acres in the Silicon Valley, Saratoga Hills, will be illuminated by ten of Bruce Munro’s light-based works installed
throughout the center’s lawns, gardens, terraces and historic structures in his first public West Coast exhibition.
Inspired by the artist’s readings of C.S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia, the installations of Bruce Munro will range in scale from enormous and immersive to intimate, utilizing hundreds of thousands of bespoke components to construct multi-hued waves, clusters, cascades, flocks and seas of light. The exhibition will transform Montalvo’s historic Villa and extensive public areas into a breathtaking spectacle of illumination.
Bruce Munro at Montalvo: Stories in Light will be on display at Montalvo Arts Center through March 17, 2019.
3D: Double Vision | LACMA, Los Angeles
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) presents the first North American survey of 3D objects and practices. Featuring artifacts of mass culture alongside historic and contemporary art, 3D: Double Vision addresses the nature of perception, the allure of illusionism, and our relationship to accompanying technologies and apparatuses. The optical principle underlying all 3D media is binocular vision — the process by which our brains synthesize the information received by our two eyes into a single, volumetric image. The more than 60 artworks featured in the exhibition activate this process by means of mirrors, lenses, filters or movement — requiring active participation on the part of spectators to complete the illusion.
This exhibition is on view at the Art of the Americas Building, Plaza Level through March 31, 2019.