Curators in Conversation on Yayoi Kusama: Christopher Bedford and Lynn Zelevansky, moderated by Helen Molesworth

Thursday, June 1, 2023, 6PM
New York | 519 West 19th Street

UPDATE: This event is now at capacity, thank you for your interest.

Join us for a conversation between curators Christopher Bedford and Lynn Zelevansky, moderated by Helen Molesworth, on the occasion of Yayoi Kusama’s exhibition I Spend Each Day Embracing Flowers at David Zwirner New York and One with Eternity: Yayoi Kusama in the Hirshhorn Collection.

The noted curators will join in an in-depth discussion on Kusama’s remarkable career, her place in the canon of art history, and her influence beyond its boundaries.

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One of Kusama’s largest gallery exhibitions to date, marking ten years since her first show with David Zwirner, I Spend Each Day Embracing Flowers features all new works, including paintings, sculptures, and an Infinity Mirror Room. Engaging flora and the natural world in her work since the 1950s, Kusama elaborates on her signature motifs of flowers and pumpkins in the exhibition, which takes its name from three monumental flower sculptures.

About the Panelists

Christopher Bedford is the Helen and Charles Schwab Director of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and previously served as the Dorothy Wagner Wallis Director of the Baltimore Museum of Art and as Commissioner for the US Pavilion for the 2017 Venice Biennale. 

Lynn Zelevansky is an art historian, curator, writer, and the former Henry J. Heinz II Director of the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh. She co-curated the 1998 exhibition Love Forever: Yayoi Kusama 1958–1968 at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, which also traveled to The Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.

Helen Molesworth is a writer, podcaster, and curator. The recipient of the 2011 Bard Center for Curatorial Studies Award for Curatorial Excellence, in 2021 she received a Guggenheim Fellowship and in 2022 was awarded The Clark Art Writing Prize. She is the current host of David Zwirner’s Dialogues podcast and PROGRAM video series.