“I think the Japanese male sexual complex originated in the two-dimensional world,” says super-flat superstar Takashi Murakami, proclaiming himself the inventor of three-dimensional, life-size renderings of anime-style cultural sex objects. This time, he had collaborating sculptor BOME make him a fiberglass, baby-faced trollop toppling from her vast, disproportionate boobage, based on the manga of Seiji Matsuyama (“controversial” creator of My Wife is an Elementary School Student, ahem). Read more »
Takashi Murakami Floats
Artist-celebrity Takashi Murakami and his floats made their way down Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade route yesterday. Scores of volunteers carefully navigated KaiKai and Kiki through the streets of Manhattan as the man responsible for creating them sported a strange outfit while being pulled on a small platform. Art! (Photos: SarahfromtheFuture/flickr)
Another royal whiner and descendant of King Louis XIV wants a court order to halt Takashi Murakami’s exhibit in the Palace of Versailles for sullying the “supreme good French taste” with “frankly grotesque” art bling. Read more »
Takashi Murakami’s Psycho-Kawaii Bling Looks Nice at Versailles
Despite certain French Right Wing cultural prudes and their silly little boob-phobic petition, Takashi Murakami’s 22 works are now on display at Chateau Versailles and looking proper and ostentatious. Isn’t that the point of Versailles? They include a giant gilded Buddha-frog-thing in the gardens of Le Nôtre and a horny anime waitress in the Royal Apartments. Read more »
Takashi Murakami is scheming to supersize the superflat and take over Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade this year. Helium-filled Kaikai and Kiki will tower three stories tall. Will the psychedelic Kawaii giants attract a few Murakami fans, wedged in the balloon-gawking herds of breeders and tourists?
Takashi Murakami is disgracing the Chateau of Versailles with tit-milk and sperm-gushing sculptures! Not. Still, even the totally tame Oval Buddha Silver and Flower Matango have a few thousand uptight French people fuming over the Japanese artist attacking their “traditions” and invading the ostentatious palace of hum-drum royal bling with his psychedelic art this September. Read more »
Murakami Turns Britney Back Into a Naughty Schoolgirl
Since the de-throwned pop star Britney Spears hasn’t been a pimped out Mouseketeen for over a decade, Takashi Murakami gave the 28-year-old mother of two a hazy Kawaii fantasy make-over for POP Magazine and viola! She’s a pervy manga’s pretty princess with a wedding veil on top. Fetish nostalgia galore.
Skateboards by Murakami, Hirst and Koons for ‘SURF/SKATE’
SoHo’s Clic Gallery brings the skate bling for its ‘SURF/SKATE’ photo exhibit: Takashi Murakami psycho-toons, Damien Hirst paint vomit and Jeff Koons monkey motif make for some swanky decks. Opens today! Preview the work in the group show of punk, skate and surf culture-glorifying photography below. Read more »
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- Jeff Koons intercourse with former Italian politician Ilona Staller, immortalized (Pop Life)
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- Maurizio Cattelan (Pop Life)
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- Andrew Fraser has sex with curator for $20,000 (Pop Life)
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- Takashi Murakami with work (Pop Life)
Unless you have a strong tolerance for gross/corny, looking at a plastic Jeff Koons getting nasty isn’t recommended for any age group. To see it at Canada’s National Gallery, you’ll need ID proving you’re 18 or older. Read more »
When not peddling psychedelic bears or bags or turning Kirsten Dunst Japanese or Kanye into said psychedelic bear, Takashi Muramki does a lot of typical stuff. Ustream-ing since mid-March, today he filmed his dog trying to take a nap in his studio for twenty minutes. Yeah. Read more »
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