Inside artist Yayoi Kusama’s trippy New York Botanical Garden exhibit
using plants and dirt. Kusama and her studio — who shipped all the materials and assembled several of the more gargantuan works in the couple of weeks leading up to the exhibit — have reprised several of her greatest hits here, including 1966’s hypnotic “Narcissus Garden,” featuring 1,400 shiny silver orbs floating on water. Meanwhile, “Flower Obsession” replicates Kusama’s famed “obliteration rooms,” in which visitors cover an entire domestic interior with polka dots. This time, the installation is a greenhouse, and the polka dots are replaced with red poppies, echoing one of Kusama’s earliest childhood hallucinations.