Pursuits
Reclusive Kusama’s ‘Infinity’ Room Lures Billionaire Collectors
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Billionaire collectors are finding it hard to resist Yayoi Kusama, the 86-year-old Japanese artist who chooses to live in a psychiatric clinic and is famous for her polka-dot creations.
This week, one of her popular immersive installations is on display during the opening of the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, the brainchild of Dasha Zhukova, partner of Russian billionaire art collector Roman Abramovich. Another edition of the same 2013 work was purchased by billionaire Eli Broad, whose private museum opens in Los Angeles in September, and a third by an anonymous European collector.