FINALLY MINE. I had a chance to buy a small Murakami painting in 2000 for $800; turning that down was the worst financial mistake of my life. I understand if you dislike him or aren’t into the factory aspect or whatever, but art is personal and I’ve always liked this piece in particular. Click to enlarge!
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hey just saw his show at the brooklyn museum yesterday with john and lena(before i saw your post). we were thinking of you the whole time…for reals
It was a good show, right? Like I said, I totally understand the Murakami hate, but there’s no one doing it in the art world on his scale except for maybe Jeff Koons. When I saw it at MoCA the giant platinum buddha really knocked me out.
hey it’s me. what do you mean “finally mine”?
murakami’s great, but I still feel resistant to having a LV store right at the exhibit. i think marc jacobs was genius in building a realtionship with murakami, but to have the show right there?
i’m a hypocrite, possibly a confused one too :0
I finally got a copy of that Mr. Wink sculpture in the center there; that one’s mine. (I’ve been meaning to get one for a while now - it’s from a large edition.)
Anyway, the Vuitton store…one question you could ask is what the primary locus of the art-ness of Murakami is. Is it the paintings, which are one of one, produced by his factory, and the Vuitton bags are strictly secondary? I think Murakami would argue for flatness, that the bags and paintings and $12 cell phone straps are all part of a single organism, which is pulsing, mutating, and excreting chaos. You could look at the internal Vuitton store as a discharge gland which operated for a while and then shriveled up and died when the exhibit closed.
I’ve been to this museum.
p.s. the bathroom lines are too long, the lounge area is pleasant…the entertainment..ehhh.soso. haha. xP