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Journal of Alta California

Holding Up a Mirror to the Audience

Nothing proclaims “I visited The Broad!” quite like a selfie snapped inside of Yayoi Kusama’s “Infinity Mirrored Room — The Souls of Millions of Light Years Away” (2013). It conveys that you came to Los Angeles’ Instagram-burnished temple to Eli and Edythe Broad’s blue-chip contemporary art collection, saw this kaleidoscopic work and, perhaps most importantly, that you conquered the long wait that has come to define

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