Showing posts with label Art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Art. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Wednesday, November 24, 2010
Takashi Murakami’s Art, Inflated for the Macy’s Parade - NYTimes.com
"The Japanese artist Takashi Murakami watched as balloons of his Kaikai and Kiki characters were readied for the parade."
By DAVE ITZKOFF
Published: November 24, 2010
Published: November 24, 2010
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"On Wednesday afternoon, on a stretch of West 81st Street in Manhattan where brightly colored, 30-foot-tall inflatable versions of his characters Kaikai and Kiki were wriggling and writhing underneath a huge net, Mr. Murakami, the Japanese pop artist, held a brief Shinto ceremony for purity and luck. He stood at a table where he poured out a glass of water and a glass of sake in front of two plates, one of white rice and one of sea salt. He gave two bows and clapped twice, then declared the ritual complete.
Kaikai, a childlike character in a rabbit costume, and Kiki, an impish figure with three eyes and two dangling fangs, were ready to greet the parade-watching public.
In an interview after the ceremony Mr. Murakami, his bushy hair tied in a knot, seemed exuberant. He said he was less concerned about whether Kaikai and Kiki — who do not promote any television cartoon shows or breakfast cereals, and are merely ambassadors of Mr. Murakami’s own playfully esoteric art — could hold their own in the Macy’s parade than about Thursday morning’s weather."
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
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