March 05, 2008

Anime dress-up at Murakami's Brooklyn Museum debut

The Brooklyn Museum's upcoming "©MURAKAMI" exhibition will get a big crazy kickoff during it's next free Target First Saturday -- with Japanese DJ Muro aka King of Diggin, and museum guests asked to dress as anime or manga characters.

First Saturday events will also include anime movie screenings, a dance party, music from Taikoza, and a gallery talk from curator Laura Mueller, and a cash bar serving beer and wine.

"©MURAKAMI" -- featuring more then 90 works from Japanese artist Takashi Murakami -- will be open to the public from April 5 through July 13. The First Saturday events, which include free museum admission, will take place April 5 from 5 to 11 p.m.

Museum officials have not yet confirmed whether the exhibition will be accompanied by a pop-up shop from Louis Vuitton, which Murakami has designed for in the past.

Image credit: Takashi Murakami, The Castle of Tin Tin, 1998
Acrylic on canvas mounted on board, 118 1/8 x 118 1/8 in., Collection of Ruth and Jake Bloom, Marina del Rey, CA, Courtesy of Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, ©1998 Takashi Murakami/Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd. All Rights Reserved.
Provided to NewYorkology by the Brooklyn Museum.

Earlier: Murakami in Brooklyn: no Oval Buddha, but new LV
Big Takashi Murakami show coming to Brooklyn in April

March 5, 2008 11:35 AM in Cheap Stuff, Drinkology, Kids, Museums, Out of Manhattan, Shopology, Sightsology

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