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Part of Little Boy: The Arts of Japan’s Exploding Subculture
April 4 – May 1, 2005
throughout the system’s network

Hideaki Kawashima Fire, 2004 Courtesy Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo Photo: Yoshitaka Uchida/Nomadic Studio © 2004 Hideaki Kawashima	Chiho Aoshima City Glow, 2005 Courtesy Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris / Blum & Poe, LA. © 2005 Chiho Aoshima/Kaikai Kiki Co. Ltd.  All Rights Reserved.
Aya Takano A Night Walk – The Pink Moon Emerges, 2005 Courtesy Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd. © 2005 Aya Takano/Kaikai Kiki Co. Ltd.  All Rights Reserved.	Noboru Tsubaki Aesthetic Pollution, 1990 Courtesy Spiral/Wacoal Art Center Photo: Katsuhiro Ichikawa © Noboru Tsubaki

Public Art Fund presents a series of four public art projects as part of Little Boy, a major exhibition hosted by Japan Society Gallery. The exhibition and public installations, all curated by Takashi Murakami, explore the astoundingly popular phenomenon called otaku, a Japanese youth subculture obsessed with fantastic and apocalyptic science fiction, fantasy, video games, comic books (manga) and film animation (anime), whose visual and musical forms are rapidly becoming globalized.

Sponsorship
Little Boy: The Arts of Japan’s Exploding Subculture is sponsored by Microsoft.

Major support for this exhibition is provided by The W.L.S. Spencer Foundation and Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd. and Kaikai Kiki New York, LLC.

Additional support is provided by the E. Rhodes & Leona B. Carpenter Foundation, The Rosenkranz Foundation, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, Asian Cultural Council, The Blakemore Foundation, the Japan Foundation, and the Leadership Committee for Little Boy.

Artist support for this exhibition has been generously provided by Yoko Ono.

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Subway placards appear on the L, A-C-E, B-D, F, N-W, Q, 1-9, 2-3, 4-5-6, 7, and J-M-Z trains.