Takashi Murakami Little Boy - Eco Eco Rangers Earth Force
About the Exhibition
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 (b. 1963, Tokyo, Japan) 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 features 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, copublished with Yale University Press, accompanies the exhibition.
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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. Transportation support is provided by Japan Airlines.
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