The Broad
Free contemporary art museum wrapped in a perforated concrete veil over a windowless storage vault.
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About this audio guide
This guide to The Broad in Los Angeles centers on Yayoi Kusama's Infinity Mirrored Room, The Souls of Millions of Light Years Away, and the sixty-second visits and timed-ticket scramble it demands from visitors. It traces back to Kusama's childhood in Japan, when she began seeing fields of dots and flashes of light creep across walls and her own hands, a sensation she came to call self-obliteration. The guide follows how that early experience shaped the mirrored, dotted rooms she has built ever since.
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