Poetic Perfection by Penn, Inspiring Madness from Kusama

One of the most celebrated and prolific photographers of the 20 th century – Irving Penn – enjoyed a seven-decade-long career with a focus on fashion, portraiture, and ethnography. The current exhibition at Fahey/Klein Gallery,Irving Penn: Worlds in a Small Room, Seen & Unseen, presents a retrospective of Penn’s ethnographic studies with his exacting attention to detail.

Installation shot, Worlds in a Small Room, Seen and Unseen. Irving Penn. Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los Angeles. Photo courtesy Fahey/Klein Gallery.

Installation shot, Worlds in a Small Room, Seen and Unseen. Irving Penn. Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los Angeles. Photo by Edward Goldman.

Four Guedras (B) (All in Black), Morocco. Irving Penn. 1971. Copyright (C) The Irving Penn Foundation. Photo courtesy Fahey/Klein Gallery.

Portrait of Yayoi Kusama in her studio. Image © Yayoi Kusama. Courtesy of David Zwirner, New York; Ota Fine Arts, Toyko/Singapore/Shangai; Victoria Miro, London; Yayoi Kusama, Inc. Image courtesy Magnolia Pictures.

Kusama – Infinity, playing at the NuArt Theater through Thursday. After that, the film will go to The Landmark theater, the new Laemmle theater in Glendale, and Regency’s South Coast Village 3 in Orange County."

Artist Kusama next to her “Dot Car” (1995) in KUSAMA – INFINITY. Photo credit: © Harrie Verstappen. Photo courtesy Magnolia Pictures.

see two of her Infinity Rooms at the Broad, and a sculptural installation with her signature polka dots at the Marciano Art Foundation. These days, 89-years-old Yayoi Kusama is one of the top-selling female artists in the world, with her paintings and sculptural installations bursting with amazing, young energy.

Yayoi Kusama, Infinity Mirrored Room -Love Forever, 1966/1994. Installation view, YAYOI KUSAMA, Le Consortium, Dijon, France, 2000. Image © Yayoi Kusama. Courtesy of David Zwirner, New York; Ota Fine Arts, Toyko/Singapore/Shangai; Victoria Miro, London; Yayoi Kusama, Inc.