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May 24, 2005

Takashi Murakami's "Little Boy" Exhibition Hits New York

Takashi Murakami is probably Japan's hottest and best known young contemporary artist. Based in Brooklyn, New York, Murakami has nutured a stable of Japanese artists who share an aesthetic style he dubbed "Superflat" a few years ago. Now Murakami has curated an exhbition at the Japan Society in New York called "Little Boy: The Arts of Japan’s Exploding Subculture." The exhbition further explores what he sees as the core of contemporary Japanese art and artistic subcultures its myriad influences as derived from his homeland's post-war pop culture. This is not to be missed. if you can't get to NYC to see it, check out the book. The exhbitions runs through July 24.

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