This weekend is your last chance until 2028 to see the Broad’s peek-a-boo Infinity Mirror Room

This weekend is your last chance until 2028 to see the Broad’s peek-a-boo Infinity Mirror Room
This weekend is your last chance until 2028 to see the Broad’s peek-a-boo Infinity Mirror Room
Photograph: Michael Juliano for Time Out

How lucky are we that the Broad has not one but two of the late Yayoi Kusama’s reflective Infinity Mirror Rooms? And that they’re both free to see? But with the Downtown L.A. museum’s expansion—add that to the list of things we’ll soon be lucky to have—currently under construction, the smaller of those two installations will be taken off view for the next couple of years.

Longing for Eternity, Kusama’s 2017 box-like structure that allows visitors to poke their heads through portholes and into a colorful, seemingly endless mirrored expanse of sometimes-flashing LEDs, will remain on display in the museum’s third-floor galleries until September 20. After that, it’ll be temporarily taken off view until the museum’s expansion opens in 2028, ahead of the Olympics.

But thankfully, the Broad’s signature Kusama piece, the twinkly Infinity Mirrored Room—The Souls of Millions of Light Years Away will still remain on view. That step-in installation on the ground floor will continue to be viewable with a free general admission ticket and a timed reservation. (Longing for Eternity, by comparison, is viewable via a first-come, first-served line in the eastern corner of the museum’s top floor.)

The Broad is currently embarking on an expansion project that’ll add three floors of new gallery space and two open-air courtyards on the Hope Street–facing side of the block. Construction began in 2025 and topped out this spring, and the museum expects for visitors to fill the new space before the Olympics in the summer of 2028.

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The Broad has bid a temporary farewell to a few other pieces lately too—including large works from Jeff Koons, Julie Mehretu and Mark Bradford—but the Kusama one is arguably the most popular piece so far. The museum is currently keeping tabs on these “last looks” on their Instagram.

If you plan on visiting this weekend, it’s easiest to secure a timed ticket to the Broad’s free collections; otherwise, you’re always welcome to try just walking up. If you don’t mind spending some cash ($21), consider a ticket for the special exhibition “Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind,” a highly participatory retrospective of the inimitable artist, musician and activist; that show runs until October 11.