Takashi Murakami

Kawaii detail of a little yokai girl from the Yoshimitsu Hyakki no Zu scroll, unknown author.
What is Kawaii Art?

Blushed round faces with twinkling eyes, cartoonish flowers with big toothy smiles, and roly-poly characters painted in …

Oli Epp, Aspirin, 2023. Oil and acrylic on canvas. 78 3/4 × 70 7/8 inches (200 × 180 cm). Courtesy the artist and Semiose, Paris
10 Highlights from Art Basel in Paris
See 10 highlights from Paris+ par Art Basel (pronounced "Paree ploos") featuring Marlene Dumas, Urs Fischer, Prune Nourry, and Magritte protegé Evelyne Axell.
Still of plush smiling flower from the video The Hysteria of This Flower Explained | Behind The HYPE: Murakami’s Flowers
The Life & Art of Takashi Murakami
Although Takashi Murakami’s art typically appears happy and bright at first glance, the artist expertly wields cartoony symbols and fantastical imagery to make larger statements on topics such as…
Installation view, KAWS: WHAT PARTY, Brooklyn Museum, February 26, 2021 - September 5, 2021. Features sculpture in front of a series of several flat images of
From Graffiti to Augmented Reality: KAWS at the Brooklyn Museum
Featuring a dynamic combination of graffiti drawings, paintings, sculptures, collectible objects, furniture, and augmented reality projects, KAWS: WHAT PARTY presents a twenty-five-year survey of the…
abstract portrait in white, yellow, black and teal.
Izumi Kato’s Otherworldly Creatures & More Fantastical Shows
Born in a coastal area of Southwestern Japan in 1969, Izumi Kato creates surreal, haunting figures, which he renders in paint with his hands and sculpts out of wood, stone, and vinyl.