Yayoi Kusama's Infinity Mirror Rooms at The Broad Are Still On View

Kusama died at 97, and admission to both downtown rooms is free; one requires an advance reservation.

Yayoi Kusama died on August 14, 2026, at a hospital in Tokyo. She was 97. Her studio announced the death on August 26, 2026, the Associated Press reported. In downtown Los Angeles, the two Infinity Mirror Rooms she left in the collection of The Broad are both listed as on view.

So you can still stand inside one, and admission won't cost you anything. The Broad's visit page says general admission is free, walk-ups are available daily, and reserving a timed ticket ahead is recommended. There's a catch on the best-known room: the museum says the 2013 one "is open with reservations required in advance" — the walk-up that gets you through the front door doesn't get you into it.

Infinity Mirrored Room—The Souls of Millions of Light Years Away (2013) entered the collection on March 18, 2014, according to the museum's record for the work, which lists its status as on view. The other one, Longing for Eternity (2017), is the hexagonal chamber you look into from outside through porthole windows, and its collection page lists it as on view too.

Same-day tickets do exist. The visit page says extra tickets go online daily at thebroad.org/tickets, with walk-ups available as well. If the 2013 room is the whole reason you're making the trip, book the reservation instead of counting on the day-of batch.

What a visit actually costs

Free is the standing policy: the site footer says general admission is always free, though the visit page notes that some exhibitions and events carry a separate charge. The only dollar figures posted for an ordinary visit are for the garage:

• $19 for three hours with museum validation
• $7 for each additional 15 minutes
• $29 daily maximum
• $19 flat after 5 p.m. on weeknights and all day on weekends

Those rates are posted on the same page. The cheap window is the evening one.

Kusama put dots on paintings, sculptures and installations for decades, and said she drew the world the way she saw it — spotted, out of hallucinations she'd had since childhood, the AP reported. She was in and out of psychiatric care for years, and in 1957 she went to New York, among the first Japanese women to move there to build a career in art. Her work has been shown at the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art.

Recognition arrived late and then all at once. Christie's sold a work of hers for $5.8 million in 2008, and in 2016 Japan awarded her the Order of Culture, the highest honor the country gives its artists, the outlet reported.

"Polka dots are fabulous," she told the AP in a 2012 interview, in the orange bobcut wig she was known for. "I will keep painting until I die."

Book the timed ticket first at thebroad.org, then sort the car: after 5 p.m. on a weeknight, the garage is a flat $19.

Source: laist.com, retrieved September 2, 2026.