A visitor experiencing Yayoi Kusama’s Infinity Mirrored Room— “My Heart Is Dancing into the Universe (2018),” part of the 2022 exhibition One with Eternity: Yayoi Kusama in the Hirshhorn Collection.

/ Courtesy of Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden has extended the popular “One with Eternity: Yayoi Kusama in the Hirshhorn Collection” — again. The exhibit, which opened last spring and provides a detailed look at the life and work of the world-famous artist, was originally supposed to close in November 2022. It was first extended last fall and will now remain on view through July 16, according to an announcement Wednesday, also Kusama’s 94th birthday.

The artist’s polka dots and Infinity Mirror Rooms have historically drawn thousands of visitors to the Hirshhorn, the Smithsonian’s preeminent contemporary art museum. A previous exhibit of Kusama’s work at the museum in 2017 caused ticketing mayhem, and the Hirshhorn estimates somewhere between 300,000 and 350,000 visitors have already viewed “One with Eternity.”

The current exhibit features the Japanese artist’s first Infinity Mirror Room from 1965, “Phalli’s Field,” which she made while living in New York and experimenting with performance art. Her 2018 room “My Heart is Dancing into the Universe” — which she made at 89 years old — is also on display.

Free, timed passes are required for guests aged 13 and up to see the exhibit; those passes grant visitors access for 15-minute time slots from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Passes are released a day in advance at noon, and guests can reserve up to two passes for the following day. (Unclaimed passes will be available online or at the in-person welcome desk until they’ve been claimed, which typically happens quickly, according to an FAQ page.)

This Friday also presents another opportunity to get in to see the exhibit: the Hirshhorn is hosting an artist talk with Kunié Sugiura, whose photogram portrait of Kusama is part of the exhibit. Registration for the artist talk also gets attendees a pass to view “One with Eternity.”

This story has been updated to reflect the Hirshhorn’s current guidance on timed passes, which are required for children ages 13 and up. Children 12 and under can enter without a timed pass if they are accompanied by an adult.

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