To promote an exhibition by Japanese artist Takashi Murakami, the Museum of Contemporary Art put up a billboard. Not long after it went up it was tagged by graffiti artists, and the billboard was quietly taken down.
According to LA Weekly, it turned out that Murakami himself saw the billboard on the Internet and found it "so wonderful, he had to have it for his collection."
Link – Photo via Wooster Collection
NiteWhite
I love murakami and it would be so cool to have my house decked out in his artwork. I like how he mixes cartoon with monsters with sexuality with cute.
raincoaster
Well, it IS beautiful. It’s a particularly wonderful juxtaposition of styles, and I can see why he’d want it.
amberae
I’m a fan of vigilante art, and glad to see that a few people up top are too. has anyone seen that video where i a guy does reverse public defacement by cleaning up dust to make graffiti? they tried to arrest him several times… for cleaning.
Shelby
Just an innocent question — how does a tagger take all that time to create such a great work of art on a HUGE, LIT, ELEVATED BILLBOARD and not get caught (or i.d.’d)?
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