Kusama retrospective is a new exhibit for an old idea

13:03 | Updated THE new Yayoi Kusama retrospective, which opened Thursday at the Whitney Museum serves as a reminder that the aggressive combination of art with fashion, which seemed to be a relatively new phenomenon, is not really the last of all. Ms. Kusama, the claim may, she taught the ropes by Andy Warhol, was for decades by mixing them, from the clothing store, they ran to their "accumulation" works, including shoes coats, many, and yes, his pants macaroni from the year 1968, which exposed to the Whitney. There is also the co-operation and Louis Vuitton pop-up store in Soho, where Ms. Kusama, even at 83, was a tireless promoter. For an overview of the exhibition on Tuesday, the Whitney has gone too far in the game until the signature red dots Kusama and wife hairdressing, bathing in the foyer of the museum serve red lights and a menu with dishes reds. There were scattered over a salad currants summer squash, which were fine, but the beet dashi poured over halibut was enough to keep guests away from their desks and send back to the exhibition. There you can see a mix of young players, including Dianna Agron, Diane Kruger and Kaya Scodelario with Lauren Santo Domingo, Olympia Scarry and Hannah Bronfman, all wearing Vuitton. In the lobby of the gallery, looked bewildered Alice Eve as she wife Kusama 'Fireflies left filled on the Water, "a work in 2002, in which the audience once you enter a room with colored lights dangling mirror so that the impression of floating in space. (Eva said she loved him, if they do not realize that the back of the room was filled with water, and went down a platform in it.) Stefano Tonchi, the editor of W, a variety of dinner, held a watchful eye of the artist, while trading stories profiled around them with the writer Arthur Lubow, the wife Kusama for the magazine. Once a writer flew to Japan to interview him and was ejected after he asked a single question, of course not good. Ms. Kusama, unfortunately, was not there. After a few hours of the promotion of cooperation Vuitton pacemaker drives the company Dot-covered Fifth Avenue store, where they arrived in a wheelchair covered with points, she was resting in his hotel. Adam Weinberg, the Whitney manager, said he hoped it would arrive in time for dessert (if that also missed). "If it's not," he joked, "You are all invited by Louis Vuitton, a breakfast at the Peninsula Hotel tomorrow morning at 8:30 clock." Carcelle, president of the label, do not take the bait Mr. Weinberg, but he acknowledged that, in collaboration with the game they were playing by the rules wife Kusama. "We have found that, despite her age, she was right on every detail," he said. "This is how we discovered that exists between a point and a point there are millions of differences. The size, shape, has nothing to do with the next point, even if you have millions of between them."