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Photos by Brandon Shigeta/Hypebeast. © 2013 Takashi Murakami / Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd.
Takashi Murakami, Japan’s answer to Andy Warhol and that pop contemporary artist that everybody loves to hate, is back with an exhibition at Blum & Poe in Los Angeles. And I have to say, his new work – an amalgamation of Buddhist monks, demonic monsters, skulls, flowers and self-portraits – is everything that I love about Murakami. The title of the Exhibition is Arhat, which, in Sanskrit, translates to “a being who has achieved a state of enlightenment,” and sets the stage for a narrative that seems permeate throughout the show.
Amongst the large-scale, highly colorful and heavily detailed paintings stands a gold-sparkling flame statue – one of the highlights (figuratively and literally speaking) of the show.
From the press release:
The Arhat paintings conflate historical, contemporary, and futuristic Japanese references with a myriad of styles, methodologies, and forms into single picture planes. The artist’s long-standing interest in Japanese nihonga painting and the contemporary practices of manga and animation are highlighted in this important body of work.
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Earlier this year Google announced that YouTube Space Tokyo, the company’s third global production facility, would open following its 1st location in London and 2nd in LA last year. Located in Roppongi Hills, the free collaborative production space was designed by Tokyo-based Klein Dytham Architecture (KDa).
Following a similar (and highly successful) approach to T-Site, in which they used tessellated Ts to adorn the walls, KDa incorporated the red TV-screen-like logo into their designs. Red lacquered ceramic tiles line the walls of the reception, which fades to lighter hues in other spaces to create consistency. Clear branding was an obvious consideration as the logo even takes the form of wooden shelving in the kitchen.
The production studio, which includes 3 studios, equipment, a training/screening room, a café, and post-production resources, began accepting applicants in April.
We built the YouTube Space Tokyo as a way to support the incredible wave of Japanese creativity we have seen develop among our YouTube Partners over the last few years. The Space is an investment in these creators to support their quest to make even better videos and build even bigger global audiences.
-Google VP Tom Pickett,