Update 3/13/2020: The exhibition is postponed as the Hirshhorn closes amid the coronavirus.

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The mirrors are officially coming: The Hirshhorn Museum announced Monday that it is launching a mini exhibit of the work of artist Yayoi Kusama. One With Eternity: Yayoi Kusama in the Hirshhorn Collection is set to open in early April.

The news of this exhibit has been coming in a slow drip: The museum quietly announced last spring that it had acquired one of Kusama’s earliest mirror rooms, and more recently promised visitors to its website that Kusama’s work would be coming on view in 2020.

One With Eternity will focus on two of the Japanese artist’s immersive, never-ending mirror rooms—one of which will be new to D.C. audiences—along with other pieces in its permanent collection.

The Hirshhorn acquired and will display “Phalli’s Field,” an enclosed room with stuffed, polka-dotted phallus shapes multiplied by the mirror-lined walls. A more recent mirror room will also go on display along with an early painting and “Flower Overcoat,” a sculpture of a worn overcoat festooned with plastic blossoms, both in the museum’s collection. And of course, there’s the otherworldly “Pumpkin” in the sculpture garden.

Unlike the 2017 ticket frenzy, which had would-be patrons hovering over their computers to claim a limited number of advance timed passes, you’ll have to go to the Hirshhorn in person to get admission to One With Eternity. Same-day timed passes will be distributed at the museum at 9 a.m. each day. Each person over 12 will be available to claim a maximum of two passes.

“We learned a lot of lessons from the last exhibition,” Hirshhorn director Melissa Chiu told the Washington Post. “We think more people are likely to redeem the ticket on the day.”

No matter how they got those tickets, people—more than 14,000 in the first week alone—flocked to the retrospective, helping the museum cross a million visitors in a year for the first time in three decades.

One With Eternity will run April 4-Sept. 20. Members to the museum will get access 10 days early.

Previously:
One Of Yayoi Kusama’s Infinity Mirrors Is Coming Back To The Hirshhorn