On Friday, during a visit to Oslo — where his work is included in an exhibition at the Astrup Fearnley Museet — Takashi Murakami paid a visit to the Nasjonalmuseet, the National Museum of Norway, which owns one of the four versions of Edvard Munch’s “The Scream.” (more…)
On April 26, 2013, Takashi Murakami will unleash his first feature-length film on Japanese audiences. The mixed live-action and animation movie, “Mememe no kurage” (or “Jellyfish Eyes”), is part post-earthquake fantasy, part coming-of-age allegory. It concerns a young boy whose family moves to an experimental community after a quake destroys their town. In the new city, every kid is paired with a miniature monster who feeds on the child’s anger. (more…)
This morning at 10am Art Basel Miami Beach staff were getting ready to greet today’s VIP visitors to the fair (above), and just an hour later the line of important people waiting to get into the fair was huge (see below). But, once inside, they were treated to the massive fair’s choicest offerings, as gallerists laid out their best for early bird collectors — the the press. Below, see some of ARTINFO’s favorite sightings from today’s VIP preview. (more…)
Japanese Superflat founder Takashi Murakami’s New York studio and office, an outpost of his company Kaikai Kiki, is pretty much the opposite of the artist’s crazily colorful, hallucinogenic work. The building, created by HWKN architects, is elegantly minimal, precisely controlled, and flexible for art production purposes. Check out some photos of the space below. (more…)
Japanese Superflat founder Takashi Murakami is opening a branch of his Kaikai Kiki art company in Germany, complete with a gallery space called Hidari Zingaro Berlin. It’s the company’s first space opened outside of Japan, and it launches this week alongside Berlin Gallery Weekend. But those unfamiliar with Japanese art historical niches (Murakami has a PhD, after all) might not know where the name comes from.
Today the Wall Street Journal’s blog Scene Asia published a very strange interview with Japanese Pop art superstar Takashi Murakami on the occasion of “Murakami-Ego,” his exhibition at the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, in which he offers his thoughts about a number of germane and tangential subjects, from death and ego, to air and space travel, and radioactive food. Highlights below. (more…)
Last week the Times’s Carol Vogel reported that Metropolitan Museum curator Marla Prather and independent curator Mark Rosenthal — previously of the Guggenheim, National Gallery of Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, and Menil Collection — will collaborate on an exhibition opening at the Met in the fall examining the influence of the “Warhol Effect” on 50 contemporary artists’ practices. The show will include some 45 pieces in various media by Andy Warhol, and roughly 100 pieces by 50 other artists whose work has been shaped in one way or another by the Pop art pioneer. (more…)
This Valentine’s Day, visitors to Takashi Murakami’s massive survey at the Al Riwaq Exhibition Hall in Doha are in for a treat. No, it’s not chocolate. It’s a massive blowup effigy Takashi Murakami! This portrait of the artist will greet visitors at the entrance to “Murakami – Ego,” his first show in the Middle East. But wait, it gets better. (more…)
