LONDON TAKASHI MURAKAMI EXHIBITON

Opened almost as a preview for Takashi Murakami’s upcoming show at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in Spain, the Gagosian Gallery in London (Gagosian London) saw the opening of their exhibition last night. The show featured three larger scale paintings including work from Murakami’s Time Bokan series and his trademark KaiKai and Kiki characters. Takashi even managed to showcased some live unofficial body painting segments.



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TOKYO CULTuART Store BY BEAMS

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TAKASHI MURAKAMI “© MURAKAMI” EXHIBITION FRANKFORT

Murakami takes his genius to Euro land for the first time in Frankfort at the Museum of Modern Art. The show features a whimsical showcase of all things Murakami, including life-sized interpretations of his infectious characters and countless paintings. © Murakami will remain open until January 4th, 2009.

MURAKAMI ANIMATION STUDIO IN L.A.

Japanese artist Takashi Murakami, whose giant Buddha, bug-eyed monsters and magical mushrooms packed in huge crowds last year at the Museum of Contemporary Art, is putting down roots in Los Angeles. A multifaceted artist who embraces painting and sculpture, film and mass-produced goods as part of a single enterprise, he is planning to open an animation studio here next summer

The company has leased a building on North Highland Avenue, to be adapted to the studio's needs. With 6,220 square feet of space on the first floor and 2,760 square feet on the second level, the facility is expected to accommodate about 30 employees, said Daniel Rappaport of Management 360, Kaikai Kiki's talent management firm in Los Angeles.The studio's first project will be a feature-length animated film based on "Planting the Seeds," the shorts that premiered at Murakami's mid-career retrospective at MOCA, Rappaport said.


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KAWS iTUNES & CHRISTMAS PACKAGING FOR 808s & HEARTBREAK

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This project by Jim Lambie is called “ZOBOP!” and is a dizzying installation of meandering parallel strips of colored tape laid on the lobby floor and up some stairs of the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

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The $3,000,000 gold sculpture of Kate Moss by Marc Quinn