"Takashi Murakami's Superflat Collection" is an exhibition of other people's work, amassed as the result of one man's phenomenally successful artistic career. It's evidence that Murakami must have done something right, or wrong, depending on your view of culture. He's sometimes portrayed as a ...
Jan. 30-April 3 After a successful homecoming exhibition at the end of last year, contemporary artist Takashi Murakami is now unveiling his private collection of works at the Yokohama Museum of Art. Dubbed "Takahashi Murakami's Superflat Collection," these works include historical Japanese and Asian artifacts, ...
Ebisu Yokocho has never looked so fabulous. It's the night before Halloween and costumed women with talon-like nails and feathered eyelashes snake their way through a boisterous crowd crammed into this narrow alley of food stalls and bars. The smell of booze and grilled ...
Oct. 31-March 6 The Mori Art Museum is holding a special solo exhibition of contemporary artist Takashi Murakami. It has been 14 years since Murakami's last large-scale exhibition in Japan, though he has been continually internationally praised, working on giant installations at prestigious venues, such ...
Takashi Murakami joins UNICEF, soccer club FC Barcelona and the Reach Out To Asia campaign to educate children in Bangladesh, Indonesia and Nepal.
Some people just can't help liking Japan. That's the message one gets from the effervescent Tim Blum and his only slightly more taciturn partner Jeff Poe, co-owners of the Los Angeles-based Blum & Poe art gallery, which this week takes the bold step of opening ...
In the West he's been referred to as "the other Murakami." To those in Japan, the difference is so prominent that very few would ever confuse artist-cum-filmmaker Takashi Murakami with novelist Haruki Murakami.
BEFORE AND AFTER SUPERFLAT: A Short History of Japanese Contemporary Art 1990-2011, by Adrian Favell. Blue Kingfisher, 2012, 246 pp., $24.95 (paper) A book about Japanese art with the word "Superflat" in the title may repel those of us who find much of the work ...
