A 56-ton Japanese sacred gate made of stone and wood stands at the Gagosian Gallery in New York. This is the entrance to Takashi Murakami’s latest exhibition, a world of paintings and sculptures that merge traditional Japanese art with pop, animé, and otaku culture. Known as In the Land of the Dead, Stepping on the Tail of a Rainbow, the new body of work revives scroll paintings, totemic sculptures, religious iconography, and art produced in response to natural disasters in Murakami's signature sharp, colorful aesthetic.
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