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Second part of the LA weekend getaway! The Broad Museum :) I had been wanting to go to the Infinity Room by Yayoi Kusama because it looked really magical. It was originally only on display until April 2016, as well, which urged me to visit the Broad. The installation is extended to September, though. It was very hard to plan a visit since everyone's schedule is always clashing. Luckily, we got to visit the Broad last week.
After a thorough (not really - it was a 30-minute google search) research, to be able to get into the Broad, we had to come early as to secure the ticket to the Infinity Room. The way it works was if you had booked a ticket in advance, you can get into the Broad at the specified time. Also, entrance into Infinity Room required a separate ticket that you have to claim once you were admitted to the museum (another queue wow). However, they had been sold out since forever so on-site ticketing was the only way for us. It was first come first serve (and it was all free). One person mentioned on Yelp that they queued from 8.30 am and got admitted at around 10.20 am and was able to get into the Infinity Room at 12 pm -ish.
Since we came all the way from San Diego, we arrived at 10 am to a line that has spanned a block away (very surprising -not). We were in line for about 2 hours (as noted by many it was the average waiting line on the weekends) and we went to sign up for the Infinity Room right away where we left our phone number and they messaged us the wait time. Guess how long it was? 400 something minutes hahaha. They said that usually it was faster and what I liked about the system was they allow you to leave the museum and came back (because now you have a ticket) when they texted you that it was about time to enter the Infinity Room. So, we did not have to be in the museum for waiting the whole time (and we explored Grand Central Market and Bradbury Building in the mean time).
Got into the Infinity Room at 5 pm -ish. (Oh and this is why we did not go to LACMA too since we spent the whole day at this area, and the Broad) And it was . . . magical! It was too fast though because each person only allowed to be inside for 45 seconds! So nervous lol. The funny thing was it was not actually my favorite art installation in the museum (it was my second, though)
Here is a picture of inside the room (with me in it lol - wrong focus so I was blackened):
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| Infinity Mirrored Room - The Souls of Millions of Light Years Away by Yayoi Kusama |
Other pictures from the day (and the art collections that I particularly adored):
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| Outside of the Broad // pc: Patricia Dewi |
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| Tulips by Jeff Koons |
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| Balloon Dog - Blue by Jeff Koons // pc: Adrienne Hasan |
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| Red Block by El Anatsui |
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| Double America 2 by Glenn Ligon |
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| The Visitors by Ragnar Kjartansson |
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| The Visitors by Ragnar Kjartansson |
Not the best person to explain the piece so here is a description from the website:
The Visitors, 2012, features nine musicians repeating the same lyrics in various rooms at Rokeby farm in upstate New York, a decaying nineteenth-century mansion known for its romantic setting and gloomy charm. Each performer uses different instruments and plays the lyrics in their own deeply felt ways as a camera pans through the house in one long, extremely impressive sixty-four-minute take. The screens in the gallery project all at once, resulting in a collective experience for the viewer. Together, the videos create what critic Hilarie M. Sheets calls an “entirely absorbing ensemble piece that was alternately tragic and joyful, meditative and clamorous, and that swelled in feeling from melancholic fugue to redemptive gospel choir.”
Lastly, the lovelies that I went with that day <3
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| The explorers! under the table (literally) // Under the Table by Robert Therrien // pc: the Broad's employee |
The Broad
221 S. Grand Ave
Los Angeles, CA 90012
http://www.thebroad.org/
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