Murkami Loves His Tagged Billboard

Posted by Alex in Arts & Crafts, Pictures on February 9, 2008 at 7:21 pm


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


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14 comments to "Murkami Loves His Tagged Billboard"

  1. NiteWhite
    February 9th, 2008 at 7:27 pm

    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.

  2. Geekazoid
    February 9th, 2008 at 11:12 pm

    Wonder what the original looked like

  3. raincoaster
    February 10th, 2008 at 1:19 am

    Well, it IS beautiful. It's a particularly wonderful juxtaposition of styles, and I can see why he'd want it.

  4. amberae
    February 10th, 2008 at 6:04 am

    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.

  5. Shelby
    February 10th, 2008 at 11:41 pm

    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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    December 9th, 2008 at 12:00 pm

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    December 9th, 2008 at 12:11 pm

    iTasha IL, we use gravatar for Neatorama readers' avatars.

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