Thursday, March 27, 2008
Upcoming at the Brooklyn Museum: Takashi Murakami Exhibit
Opening April 5th. If you're wondering who the hell this is, he's the dude who designed the Kanye West Graduation album cover. Details on the exhibit from the Brooklyn Museum Website:
"The most comprehensive retrospective to date of the work of internationally acclaimed Japanese artist Takashi Murakami includes more than ninety works in various media that span the artist’s entire career, installed in more than 18,500 square feet of gallery space.
Born in Tokyo in 1962, Murakami is one of the most influential and acclaimed artists to have emerged from Asia in the late twentieth century, creating a wide-ranging body of work that consciously bridges fine art, design, animation, fashion, and popular culture. He received a Ph.D. from the prestigious Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, where he was trained in the school of traditional Japanese painting known as Nihonga, a nineteenth-century mixture of Western and Eastern styles."
Click here for more.
(h/t: Julia S.)
Labels: Kanye West, Takashi Murakami
