Murakami at MOCA
I got a chance to visit the Takashi Murakami retrospective at The Geffen Contemporary at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in Los Angeles on Saturday. This was my first time to view Murakami’s artworks up close and it was interesting seeing more than 90 of them in various media including painting, sculpture, film and installation. What a prolific artist! Murakami is also successful with his commercial projects with Kaikai Kiki and Louis Vuitton, the latter having a temporary boutique set up in the second level of the museum. The boutique displays a range of handbags and accessories featuring Murakami’s brightly hued logo designs and, of course, sells limited edition handbags, wallets and agendas. The exhibit runs through February 11. If you are not a MOCA member, I suggest buying your tickets online and printing your receipt for will call tickets to bypass the long lines. Check out Notcot’s pictures from the Gala Opening. More photos on Flickr and after the jump.
Flower Ball (Kindergarten Days), 2002
Kaikai and Kiki and the Time Bokan Series
Pictures of the temporary Louis Vuitton boutique inside MOCA:
This is the Multicolore trunk that houses the 33 Marilyn bags pictured here. I couldn’t take a photo of the front of the trunk with the Marilyn bags in it as taking pictures technically weren’t allowed and a guard stood planted on the other side. Karen Kooper was braver than I and took photos of it.
Brisk sales at the Louis Vuitton pop-up store.
The pièce de résistance, a limited edition Murakami LV Hands Neverfull bag. How could you not walk away from the exhibit without it? Admittedly, I would have loved this place setting more than the bag.
