This tour focuses on how Yayoi Kusama responded creatively to her time in New York between 1957 and 1973. Exploring the cultural, social and political similarities and differences between her native Japan and USA, learn how Kusama drew upon her lived experience to respond to key moments in American history such as the counterculture youth movement, anti-Vietnam war demonstrations, confrontational fashions and the place of women within a rapidly changing arts scene.
This tour will be given in British Sign Language and is exclusively for Deaf sign language users.
This event is part of the Kusama in America: Access Programme, a durational series of events coinciding with the Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirror Rooms exhibition at Tate Modern.
This event is part of the Terra Foundation for American Art Series: New Perspectives