For those who enjoy Yoshitomo Nara’s mischievousness characters and pop-culture inspired iconography, or those who are not yet familiar with them, the current show at the Asia Society in New York City, Yoshitomo Nara: Nobody’s Fool, will no doubt be a revelation. One of the key figures of the Japanese Pop movement of the 1990s, [...]

Asia Society Museum
Through 2 January 2011

Asia Society Museum devotes its entire museum space to a major exhibition of Japanese artist Yoshitomo Nara, one of the most influential Neo Pop artists working today. More than one hundred works including drawings, paintings, sculptures, and installations—many of which have never been exhibited in the United States—will emphasize the relationship of Nara’s art to rock and punk music, which has been an ongoing source of inspiration and prevailing reference point in his work.

Yoshitomo Nara, White Ghost, 2010. Photos: 16 Miles [more]
Yoshitomo Nara’s show at Asia Society doesn’t open until Thursday, but his outdoor installation on Park Avenue is already in place. The work, White Ghost, comprises two 12-foot-tall sculptures made of fiberglass and steel that face each other from pedestals on the median that runs along Park. [...]

24th Street and 11th Avenue at 1:00 p.m. today. Photos: 16 Miles

Some of Dan Colen’s skateboard-ramps-turned-sculptures were unloaded this afternoon outside of the 24th Street branch of Gagosian. (Alex Gartenfeld had the story on that last month in the New York Observer.) Those hoping to redeem themselves after not skateboarding in Deitch Projects‘ skateboard bowl [...]