{"id":9132,"date":"2021-02-08T11:00:36","date_gmt":"2021-02-08T16:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=9132"},"modified":"2025-02-12T23:05:25","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T04:05:25","slug":"misaki-kawai-at-the-hole-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/08\/misaki-kawai-at-the-hole-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Misaki Kawai, Moko Moko (Pink) at The Hole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A giant yellow emoji pillow greets visitors to Misaki Kawai\u2019s latest show at <a href=\"http:\/\/theholenyc.com\/2020\/11\/22\/misaki-kawai-4\/\">The Hole<\/a> on the Bowery, signaling that the artist\u2019s sense of humor is still lively.\u00a0 Her bright, fun, faux-na\u00efve style comes across in text paintings and furry sculptures that invite touch (a sign on the wall and a dispenser of hand sanitizer confirm that this is allowed). Citing the notion of \u2018heta-uma,\u2019 or \u2018bad but good,\u2019 Kawai challenges notions of taste, but all in good fun.\u00a0 (On view through Feb 14<sup>th<\/sup>. Masks and social distancing are required.)<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9133\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9133\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/08\/misaki-kawai-at-the-hole-2\/misaki_kawai-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9133\"><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9133\" src=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/misaki_kawai.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"359\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/misaki_kawai.jpg 3229w, https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/misaki_kawai-150x108.jpg 150w, https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/misaki_kawai-500x359.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9133\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Misaki Kawai, Moko Moko (Pink), faux fur, felt, wood, steel, 60 x 60 x 12 inches, 2020.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A giant yellow emoji pillow greets visitors to Misaki Kawai\u2019s latest show at The Hole on the Bowery, signaling that the artist\u2019s sense of humor is still lively.\u00a0 Her bright, fun, faux-na\u00efve style comes across in text paintings and furry sculptures that invite touch (a sign on the wall and a dispenser of hand sanitizer &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/08\/misaki-kawai-at-the-hole-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Misaki Kawai, Moko Moko (Pink) at The Hole&#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":"none","_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":"both","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":301,"_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":[7651,9202,9203,6443,9201,9204,5046,10,3745,9205,5192],"class_list":["post-9132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dont-miss","category-features-commissions","category-hottest-show","tag-emoji","tag-furry","tag-fuzzy","tag-misaki-kawai","tag-moko-moko","tag-pillow","tag-pink","tag-sculpture","tag-the-hole","tag-touch","tag-xxl"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BDOD-2ni","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9132","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=9132"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11961,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9132\/revisions\/11961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}