Walking into Takashi Murakami: The Octopus Eats Its Own Leg is to step into a phantasmagoria of the garishly cute, the disarmingly grotesque, and above all, the unflinchingly bizarre: vibrant, multi-eyed mushrooms sprout from the ground (DOB in The … more »
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PACIFIC CROSSINGS
In 1967, David Lam briefly returned to Hong Kong from Vancouver after being commissioned to complete a series of paintings. In an interview with The Star atop the rooftop of the Peninsula Hotel where he sat sketching, … more »
“For art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments’ sake.”
Walter Pater, The Renaissance, 1868
Walking through the Juxtapoz x Superflat exhibition at … more »