{"id":7515,"date":"2018-05-21T15:00:06","date_gmt":"2018-05-21T19:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=7515"},"modified":"2018-05-21T11:54:20","modified_gmt":"2018-05-21T15:54:20","slug":"takashi-murakami-at-perrotin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/21\/takashi-murakami-at-perrotin\/","title":{"rendered":"Takashi Murakami at Perrotin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It can be easy to focus on the bright, pop side of Takashi Murakami\u2019s production, even as his cute, anime-inspired characters sprout fangs.\u00a0 His current solo show on all three floors of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.perrotin.com\/exhibitions\/takashi_murakami-headsheads\/6477\">Perrotin<\/a>\u2019s Lower East Side gallery continues to probe darker sides of life (a strain in his work that\u2019s grown since Japan\u2019s 2011 tsunami and earthquake) by engaging with select paintings by Francis Bacon.\u00a0 Here, Bacon\u2019s famous painting of rival and friend Lucian Freud is springboard for Murakami\u2019s own alternative characters &#8211; multi-eyed alien creatures that suggest humor and menace in equal measure.\u00a0 (On view through June 17<sup>th<\/sup>).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7516\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7516\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=7516\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7516\"><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7516\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/murakami-300x127.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"127\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7516\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Takashi Murakami, Untitled, acrylic, gold and platinum leaf on canvas mounted on aluminum frame, h: 197.8 x l: 147.5 cm (each), 2018.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It can be easy to focus on the bright, pop side of Takashi Murakami\u2019s production, even as his cute, anime-inspired characters sprout fangs.\u00a0 His current solo show on all three floors of Perrotin\u2019s Lower East Side gallery continues to probe darker sides of life (a strain in his work that\u2019s grown since Japan\u2019s 2011 tsunami &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/21\/takashi-murakami-at-perrotin\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Takashi Murakami at Perrotin&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,27,4],"tags":[8,7959,13,431,7960,856,33,7387,4021,16],"class_list":["post-7515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dont-miss","category-features-commissions","category-hottest-show","tag-art","tag-francis-bacon","tag-gallery","tag-lower-east-side","tag-lucian-freud","tag-painter","tag-painting","tag-perrotin","tag-takashi-murakami","tag-tour"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BDOD-1Xd","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7515"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7517,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7515\/revisions\/7517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}