Superflat creator and artist extraordinaire Takashi Murakami will open his latest exhibit at the  Gagosian Gallery in London next Tuesday, June 28th. His retrospective show at the MOCA was one of the best ever exhibited at the seminal museum, and his exhibit at Chateau de Versailles last year made global headlines. This new exhibit will […]

The latest in Scion’s AV series opens tomorrow, May 7 (7-10pm), and will run till May 28. Titled Pacific, the show’s concept is one of the more unique that Scion has put on: “Cutting through the layers of reality and challenging the notion of what most of us consider as “everyday”, Pacific brings together ten […]

In this 176 page book, Tokyo-based authors Ivan Vartanian and Kyoko Wada take a holistic view of Japanese art throughout its 5 millenniums of history and analyze common threads found throughout. See/Saw finds ways to unite such chronologically disparate themes as Giant Robots and ancient Samurai illustrations, or uniting Murakimi’s Superflat school of art with […]

Three new plush dolls from Takashi Murakami have hit Colette recently (I included the Rainbow Flower above only because he’s so rad). The Frazzled collection of stuffed plush toys include “Kaikai”, “Kiki” and “Mr Dob” from Murakami’s iconic superflat series, and have to be just about the perfect gift for any baby shower (check out […]

UPDATE: If you want to see more of the exhibit, Flavorwire has a nice gallery to peruse. A beautiful peek at the current Takashi Murakami exhibit at Chateau de Versailles by OFIVE.TV. Very well shot, plus the soundtrack by Air doesn’t hurt…

For many Americans, their introduction to Japanese anime came via the epic Star Blazers series in the 80s, known as Space Battleship Yamato in Japan and the rest of the world. Premiering a couple years before Robotech, Star Blazers was eons ahead of its American counterparts (have they ever caught up?), telling an opera in […]