While most artists struggle to be big in the States, others strive for the glory of being big in Japan after they've flopped in America. Of course, that isn't really the case with (our dear friend) the Canadian-born multi-disciplinary artist eepmon…
Continue Reading →If only more online stores had a typeface purchase option. Japanese design firm LoWorks sells books, DVDs, and toys when it isn't busy being awarded Favourite Website Awards' Site of the Day and collaborating with Nike and Yahoo. Takashi Murakami…
Continue Reading →Hiroshi Fujiwara, Junya Watanabe, Takashi Murakami. These are all household names by now, and if you are not familiar with them, you should be. I think the late Amy Spindler said it best in her 2002 NY Times article: Japan…
Continue Reading →If you're well connected, you would've received an invite yesterday to RSVP for a private preview on Friday for Dalek's only exhibit this year, Overweight, at Washington D.C.'s Irvine Contemporary. It's gotta be one of the biggest tickets in town…
Continue Reading →My most favorite artist in the whole wide world, Takashi Murakami (see: Superflat, Louis Vuitton), is co-curating an exhibit with Giant Robot publisher Eric Nakamura, selecting the cream of the crop from Murakami's respected GEISAI art expos in Japan and…
Continue Reading →The Japan Society in NYC has an going on right now called "Little Boy: The Arts of Japan's Exploding Subculture"--curated by Takashi Murakami (you have probably seen his work for Louis Vuitton, drawing on handbags,etc). The exhibit sounds absoloutly amazing,…
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