Curated by Takashi Murakami

An exhibition organized by Japan Society in collaboration with Public Art Fund, featuring four outdoor and off-site Public Art Fund projects.

In the spring of 2005, Public Art Fund will organize 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. The exhibition will feature works by leading creators of these popular art forms as well as related paintings, sculpture and photography by acclaimed contemporary Japanese Neo-Pop artists such as Yoshitomo Nara and Chiho Aoshima. A fully illustrated, bilingual catalogue, co-published with Yale University Press, accompanies the exhibition. Public Art Fund projects will include new works by Takashi Murakami, Chiho Aoshima, Chinatsu Ban and others.

Press Release (pdf 36k)

For more information about the exhibition, visit www.japansociety.org.