Takashi Murakami Archive
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Toy art continues to breach the boundaries of its niche, and this is a good thing. Recently, fine art discovery engine, Art.sy, added a “related to toys” gene
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The KAWS hype machine is about to get even more blown out of proportion. In just a few weeks, as Americans sit couched and catatonic from our ample
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French artist Soasig Chamaillard takes damaged commemorative statuettes of The Virgin Mary and turns them into pop culture characters. There’s Hello Kitty Virgin Mary, My Little Pony Virgin Mary,
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Bad Smell is an exhibition of new work by Italian (anti-)artist, Laurina Paperina, currently on display at Fouladi Projects in San Francisco. Paperina’s (anti-)art is a mash-up of pop culture
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Viewing modern toy art in a museum/fine art gallery is an amazing experience. As LA’s Toy Art Gallery celebrates the 1st anniversary of its Melrose Ave showroom, and major
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Selim Varol‘s epic collection of art and toys [previously] opened this past weekend at the Me Collectors Room in Berlin. The exhibition includes a total of 3,000 works centered
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Later this month, quite possibly the largest ever exhibition of toy art, will open at the me Collectors Room in Berlin. If you’re familiar with the Toy Giants
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While Takashi Murakami was installing his gigantic, hyperreallistic, inflatable self in Qatar (above, left), the humbler Mike Leavitt was chiseling away in his hand-built Seattle studio finishing off an
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What’s this? A Takashi Murakami dollhouse? Of course not, silly. You can’t fit an ego into a shoebox. For the first time, Takashi Murakami is exhibiting his work in the middle
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Mike Frederiqo is a young Dutch artist. In this series of illustrations, he recasts Sponge Bob Squarepants in the styles of fashion icons. Takashi Murakami, Coco Chanel, Karl
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