Beyond kawaii and otaku, here’s some “grown up” Japanese art show featuring pop artist Yoshitomo Nara’s memorial sculpture to dead Hello Kitties and Makoto Aida’s hordes of whorey gorey schoolgirls. Read more »
Just as Antony Gormley’s suicide nudes are de-perched from Manhattan rooftops in late August, two of Yoshitomo Nara’s White Ghost statues will flank Park Avenue. The 12-foot-high hand-less pup-girls in gleaming fiberglass announce the Japanese creepy-cute artist’s career retrospective, Nobody’s Fool, at the Asia Society this September. Here’s to hoping Nara-san won’t get arrested for drunken subway doodling this time.
Yoshitomo Nara, the drunken Japanese pop artist arrested for drawing a smiley face, valued at $10k, on a L station wall, has had all charges wiped away. As part of the plea deal made earlier this year, the 49-year-old artist had to avoid being busted by the NYPD for six months, an easy task since he lives overseas. |NYP|
Combining two of life’s greatest joys, bicycling and art, Lance Armstrong’s Stages exhibition opened at the Emmanuel Perrotin gallery in Paris last week. On view through August 8th, the benefit show for the Lance Armstrong Foundation features commissioned work from the “world’s most accomplished and promising international artists.” The selection of 16 artists, all but two of them male, was tasked with creating new work with some type of cancerous connection. Read more »
With the Tour de France underway, Trek offers an overview of Lance Armstrong’s sextuplet of artist customized bicycles. Along with more detailed views of the rolling canvases by KAWS, Shepard Fairey, Kenny Scharf, Marc Newson, comes a closer look at the most recent bikes stylized by Japanese artist Yoshitomo Nara and shark cutter Damien Hirst. Read more »
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