Category: Murakami collaborations

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Wouldn’t it be Nice if We Could Streak with the Blue Robot Cat Amongst the Flying Elephants? Murakami and the Infinite Collaboration with Fujiko F. Fujio’s Doraemon

With the number of Doraemon/Murakami collaboration prints at 37 offset editions, 26 hanga editions and counting, it’s no wonder that there is confusion about what’s what. What’s so great about Doraemon anyway? Who on earth is Murakami’s collaborator, the mysterious Fujiko F. Fujio? Why does this print retail literally for $4000 and while that other …

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That KYNE Show: Why KYNE is Murakami’s next Kingmaker Project

Recently the graffiti artist KYNE has appeared on Murakami’s radar. Kaikai Kiki’s Tonari no Zingaro has released a series of silkscreen editions to promote him, and KYNE has a Perrotin appearance in Healing, a group show curated by Murakami. Their connection stems in part from a shared love of channeling Showa era pop culture in …

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Everything you wanted to know about the Madsaki prints, but were afraid to ask

The Madsaki Flowers silkscreen prints premiered with great fanfare at the 2017 ComplexCon in Los Angeles. In the follow-up to its initial release, Madsaki Flowers re-appeared in separate sales by Murakami’s official sponsor Gallery Perrotin, and at Murakami’s newly unveiled Tonari no Zingaro (‘Next to Zingaro’, Murakami’s pop-up shop next to Oz Zingaro). Now this …

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Virgil Abloh’s Off-White pops up in Shinjuku Isetan in lead up to Kaikai Kiki show

After his stint with Murakami at ComplexCon, Virgil Abloh (or see Fader interview here) will soon have a show at Murakami’s Kaikai Kiki Gallery in Roppongi. Who knows what to expect as the King of Superflat and the Titan of Stencils team up for another collaboration? Perhaps the Off-White Shinjuku Men’s Isetan Pop-Up shop offers …

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It’s a Madsaki, Madsaki, Madsaki, World: Or How the Apprentice Elevated the Master of Superflat

Maybe you know him from Barnstormers, or perhaps his Please Don’t Spit on the Painting Show at Widewalls; in any event, there’s not much more I can say about Madsaki that has not been written up in Juxtapoz; and similarly on Honeyee in Japanese here (except he admits to his passionate study of art in …

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