Japanese artist Takashi Murakami poses for a portrait at the Blum & Poe gallery in Los Angeles, during the exhibition. In his distinctive “Superflat” style, which employs highly refined classical Japanese painting techniques to depict a super-charged mix of Pop, animé and otaku content within a flattened representational picture-plane, Murakami moves freely within an ever-expanding [...]
From February 17 through May 31 2009, the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao will present the most important retrospective to date of the work of the Japanese artist Takashi Murakami (b. Tokyo, 1962), one of the most celebrated contemporary artists to have emerged from Asia in the last century. Japanese artist Takashi Murakami exhibits until March 31 [...]
At Maccarone Gallery, works by Haim Steinbach, Julian Schnabel and Anselm Reyle. Everyone-into-the-pool gallery group shows are a welcome distraction in a steamy New York midsummer, even when the water is tepid and unsightly matter floats to the top, as is the case in “Pretty Ugly,” a jolie-laide ensemble of 75 artists split between Gavin [...]
Who knew that the first Louis Vuitton boutique in Brooklyn would touch down smack in the middle of the borough’s most venerable art institution? But there it is, at the Brooklyn Museum, bright and gleaming and blending smoothly into a sleek, stylish survey of the work of Takashi Murakami. Mr. Murakami, who is frequently called [...]
Paul Schimmel, chief curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, has in recent weeks been a fixture in Brooklyn as he mounts a major retrospective of the Japanese artist Takashi Murakami. The show, which he organized, closed on Feb. 11 at the Los Angeles museum’s Geffen Contemporary space and will open on [...]
