ＮＹでオタクアート展 日本のサブカルチャー紹介
【ニューヨーク８日共同】漫画やアニメなど戦後の日本のサブカルチャーを網羅的に紹介する展覧会「リトルボーイ 爆発する日本のサブカルチャー・アート展」が８日、ニューヨークの民間団体ジャパン・ソサエティーで始まった。アニメのキャラクターなどを使ったアートで高い評価を得ている村上隆氏が監修し、日本のサブカルチャーを支えるオタク文化を検証する企画。会場にはウルトラマンシリーズに登場する怪獣の絵、ゴジラやハローキティのおもちゃ、ドラえもんの漫画などのほか、２０歳代の「オタクアーティスト」の作品も並ぶ。この展覧会は７月２４日まで開催される。
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Japan Society Gallery, Spring 2005
Little Boy: The Arts of Japan’s Exploding Subculture
Curated by Takashi Murakami 
Through July 24, 2005
A major exhibition and series of public art installations, curated by Takashi Murakami. Organized by Japan Society in collaboration with Public Art Fund.
Little Boy: The Arts of Japan's Exploding Subculture explores the culture of postwar Japan through its arts and popular visual media, from the perspective of one of Japan's most celebrated artists. Focusing on the phenomenally influential subcultures of otaku (roughly translated as "pop cult fanaticism") and its relationships to Japan's artistic vanguard, Takashi Murakami explores the historical influences that shape Japanese contemporary art and its distinct graphic idioms. The exhibition's title, Little Boy, refers to the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945, clearly locating the birth of these new cultural forms in the trauma and generational aftershock. In Murakami's perspective, a resonant figure for Japan's contemporary condition is that of the "little boy"--both the nickname for the bomb dropped on Hiroshima and an image of Japan's infantalized culture.
Little Boy concludes Murakami's "Superflat" trilogy, a project conceived in 2000 to introduce a new wave of Japanese artists and to place their work in the historical context of traditional Japanese styles and concepts. The exhibition will showcase the work of key otaku artists and designers, many of whom are cult celebrities in Japan, and introduces their film and video animations, video games and internet sites, music, toys, and fashion to American audiences.
Work by Anno Hideaki, Aoshima Chiho, Ban Chinatsu, Fujiko F. Fujio, Kawashima Hideaki, Kato Izumi, Komatsuzaki Shigeru, Mahomi Kunikata, Matsumoto Reiji, Miura Jun, "Mr.," Narita Toru, Okamoto Taro, Oshima Yuki, Otomo Katsuhiro, Otomo Shoji, Takano Aya, Tsubaki Noboru, Yanobe Kenji, Yoshitomo Nara, and Murakami will be exhibited. Public art works by Ban, Aoshima and Murakami will be installed at sites throughout New York City.
A fully illustrated, bilingual catalogue, co-published with Yale University Press, accompanies the exhibition, with essays by Murakami, Midori Matsui, Morikawa Kaichiro, Okada Toshio, Sawagari Noi, Katy Siegel and project directors Tom Eccles, Director of the Public Art Fund and Alexandra Munroe, Director of the Gallery and Vice President of Arts & Culture at Japan Society.
Gallery hours
Tuesday through Thursday, 11 am - 6 pm
Friday, 11 am - 9 pm
Saturday & Sunday, 11 am - 5 pm
Admission
$12. Japan Society members & children under 16 free. Students & seniors $10.
Docent-led Walk-in Tours are conducted every Tuesday & Thursday at 12:30 pm. Private Tours for Adult Groups for a maximum of 30 people may be scheduled in advance through the Japan Society Gallery. To schedule a tour, please call (212) 715-1215. Tours in Japanese are available upon request. The tour fee is $75 and does not include admission, which is suggested at $5 per person. For Japan Society members, the reduced tour fee is $6o, with complimentary admission. For senior citizen groups and college/university groups, the reduced tour fee is $35, plus $3.00 admission per person. Adult group tours include an introduction and walk-through that features information on a selection of works in the exhibition. Tours are conducted by a Gallery educator and last approximately one hour. For information on tours for K-12 student groups, please click here.
This exhibition is sponsored by 
Major support for this exhibition is provided by The W.L.S. Spencer Foundation.
Additional support is provided by the E. Rhodes & Leona B. Carpenter Foundation, The Rosenkranz Foundation, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, Asian Cultural Council, The Blakemore Foundation, The Japan Foundation, and the Leadership Committee for Little Boy.
Artist support for this exhibition has been generously provided by Yoko Ono. Transportation support is provided by Japan Airlines. 
RELATED LECTURE PROGRAMS
INSIDE THE STUDIO
Takashi Murakami
6:30 pm
Friday, April 8
This program features a conversation between Takashi Murakami, curator of the exhibition Little Boy: The Arts of Japan's Exploding Subculture and exhibition catalogue contributors Midori Matsui and Kaichiro Morikawa.
Japanese Postwar Popular Culture & Its Icons
6:30 pm
Thursday, May 5
This panel discussion explores the development of Japanese popular culture from Godzilla to the recent “Cool Japan” craze. Featuring Eric Shiner, an independent curator who specializes in Japanese contemporary art; Anne Allison, Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Duke University; and music critic Archie Meguro of Sony Music Entertainment.
On the Battlefield of "Superflat": The Origins of Japanese Neo Pop
6:30 pm
Thursday, May 26
In this lecture, Noi Sawaragi, leading art critic and contributor to the Little Boy: The Arts of Japan's Exploding Subculture exhibition catalogue, discusses the cultural and critical meanings of Japanese Neo Pop, placing it within the historical and social contexts of postwar Japan.
Fanatics, Cuties & Geeks: The Otaku Phenomenon & its Impact Abroad
6:30 pm
Thursday, June 9
Aiming to examine the origins of the otaku phenomenon and its impact and incarnations abroad, this panel features Lawrence Eng, otaku fan cultures expert and PhD candidate at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and Ed Halter, regular contributor to the Village Voice and organizer of the New York Underground Film Festival.
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Time Bokan - pink, 2001
Takashi Murakami (Japanese, 1962-)
Acrylic on canvas mounted on wood
180 x 180 cm
Courtesy Marianne Boesky Gallery.
© 2001 Takashi Murakami/Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd. All Rights Reserved.
Time Bokan - blue, 2001
Takashi Murakami (Japanese, 1962-)
Acrylic on canvas mounted on wood
180 x 180 cm
Courtesy Marianne Boesky Gallery.
© 2001 Takashi Murakami/Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd. All Rights Reserved.
