Comments on: Takashi Murakami “Mr. Wink”

By: Rodene Ronquillo

Rodene Ronquillo — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 10:38:54 +0000

p.s. the bathroom lines are too long, the lounge area is pleasant…the entertainment..ehhh.soso. haha. xP

By: Rodene Ronquillo

Rodene Ronquillo — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 10:38:17 +0000

I’ve been to this museum.

By: geoffrey

geoffrey — Fri, 23 May 2008 02:01:54 +0000

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.

By: ej

ej — Thu, 22 May 2008 23:55:21 +0000

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

By: geoffrey

geoffrey — Mon, 19 May 2008 03:04:29 +0000

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.

By: george

george — Sun, 18 May 2008 22:20:15 +0000

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