New York Magazine: Jerry Saltz at '©Murakami'

[MsMadisonGrey]

Am I the only one thats bored. . .

[efrain908]

OMG I love it!!!!!!!

[mERMAIDofDEATh]

Hunny: TAKASHI!!!!!!! <3

Yeah, I don't know if I'm in the right part of youtube for anyone to get this reference, but I don't care.

Anyhow, Murakami never ceases to fascinate me! It's all, like, exploding rainbow unicorns! :D

[InsaneAudioX]

#1 how did he not get flagged. #2 that guy is a pedophile

[Daugueffxi]

i fapped to this

[MultiRipper88]

brilliant video

i'm writing an essay about him at university

if anybody got interesting links about him please contact me ! :)

and to all the haters : of course there is a deeper meaning behind his work but the first effect of his work is perfectly described by Mr. Saltz

[frogboy7000]

Do you hear that, art critic? A youtube commenter has called you ignorant. This jobless Internet user is more aloof than you could ever be, art-o-nista, with your baldness and your college words. Get fokked.

[fuhoney]

It definitely is NOT just eye candy , there are layers of meaning in hi work. You sound ignorant...

[Spideysenses67]

Eye candy just gets boring after a while

[StreetTrooper]

I do have to he explains Mura pretty well, Mura doesn't do art with a deep meaning or what not he does art in the point of it being art which is one of the reasons I really love his work. I don't view art to figure out some stupid hidden message of, "OH this person was raped as child this painting is their escape" or "This painting resembles the sorrow and pain this person feels being a recluse". I view art because I like how it looks when it's unique, and that's what Mura makes.

[ItsNOTaBirdXD]

 but sometimes that cotton candy gives you an erection.

:p

[Mysticsloth]

ahh that girl statue ... i like it if art has the potential to give me a boner =w= that's rare.

[PowelDragon12]

why.

[NewEnglandWXLife]

Mr.Pionty Creeps me out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[BreatheLifexX]

2:35 "But it's made by hand"

I bet the artist had fun shaping that penis on that statue. pftt.

[dlxowns322]

After seeing that two rather "interesting" figures, I laughed so hard first on how amazingly inappropriate it was and then on how straight the guy was esplaining the two figures. I soon felt something die inside me for laughing at such a thing...

[cruisingcody]

@thurmanthomas45

Must have been micheal jackson's ghost

[RxCxMrClueless]

I wondering should this be flagged lol 

[KiraShiki]

Pft..pft pfttttttttttttttttt XD

[cooolkid125]

LOL LOLOLOLOL

[The3rdPersonViewer]

"It's like cotton candy. You can just eat it up."

No! No I can't! And I don't want to!

[sethiegangst]

this guy is a shitty art critic or whatever he is

[toransu]

I love how he can't pronounce Murakami correctly, but attempts to pronounce Louis Vuitton correctly.

[boogiebuddy01]

yawn

[drcroc2]

i like Jerry Saltz but Murakami eh kind of boring

[yujirock1]

Ewww that's dirty art :p

[peiceOcheese]

deep dark meanings my ass, thats a penis

[Pollix780]

This guy is amazing, stays mellowed out through the presentation.

[DarkSolandLuna]

Wow.

[monoham1]

i was so offended by the milk lady... that shit belongs in my room man.. if normal people know why japan REALLY makes this shit they might take it from me....

[FelixFLHS]

this reminds me while the consumers enjoying the artificial pleasures on the surface these thoughtful, wily assholes are taking over the world.

[t33z3]

I like how his voice sounded kinda ominous

[jezdamayel]

wow this is all amazing!! i love the flower room! that is just amazing! very nice~

[devilman182]

LOL at critic interpretation

[mcSHTT]

definately agree with everything this guy says. very well articulated

[lcabosa]

true artist and art abdicated of leading minds and fellings to the new world, we are left with an ilusion off fun and joy.

[Akkkico]

@1:00, " Murakami is clear that he makes money if he opens the boutique inside the gallery."

Do you know that he even doesn't paint his works? The unpaid volunteers paint for him at his studio. Moreover, Murakami shouts these volunteer workers if they don't do well. When I heard this story, I felt like "ok, that's like sweatshops."

[thomas3fd6]

I am a Japanese man.

I like art, and I like Andy Wahol, I have a copy of his silkscreen picture.

But, I do not like Takeshi Murakami at all.

[Shippoyasha]

@thomas3fd6 I love Andy Warhol and I love Murakami. I kinda am baffled how people can like one style and dislike the other when they basically are saying the same thing about gross consumerism and overtness of their respective topics outside of art.

[thomas3fd6]

@Shippoyasha

Thanks for your comment for me, maybe I hate too sexual appeal art, I think.

[Shippoyasha]

@thomas3fd6 I actually don't like sexual artwork that is just sexual without much of a point or are too exploitative. Some of Murakami's works definitely treads that line, but at least with those two particular statues, I would think that the message is that people tend to flaunt sexuality almost as a natural extension of play. Not sure whether Murakami thinks it's a good or bad thing or just a natural thing for humans.

Either way, I just like how most other Murakami works just makes one wonder

[thomas3fd6]

@Shippoyasha

OK, I never deny your favour.

I prefer Andy Warhol to Murakami, that is all.

[monoham1]

@Shippoyasha ahahaha i thought for a sec that it was a review of a doll then i watched and i realized it was a parody of consumer goods

but i thought it was real because its pretty tame considered to the models you see in tokyos geek district... and often that is real cum and milk...

[junesue1205]

THANK YOU JAPAN

[0Adamska]

i like the color and stuff but wheres the value for real beautiful art these days, like something with meaning and expression in itself, like art art not just design or colorful imagery but art with the same qualities as great poems or music

[0Adamska]

this is gross.

[Oriniae]

WOW. LOL.

[MrBIGkilla45]

kinda reminds me of paul robertson's art

[makealotofcake]

this is fucked up

[yamehime]

trippy is all i can say ^-^

[ajdugas]

"space boy" best description evar

[wads40]

"Made By Hand"

[kiomiknockout]

LOOOL MASS EJACULATION.

[DirtyHotdogWater]

I still can not believe I paid to view this crappy, unoriginal work. Murakami is a Warhol wannabee who can not get enough of anime porn and mickey mouse. He is no artist.

[VCat2006]

@DirtyHotdogWater He shows more skill than randomly colorizing black and white photographs, but i guess that was original back then. The fat little monster trend is old, but i like this artist's other whimsy works.

[devilmaycryyaoi]

@DirtyHotdogWater why do you say that?

What makes it so "unoriginal"?

[sqwrrlta31stest]

"Young girl, with gigantic breasts."

[Seifter16]

Why is it that every art critic, or actually, just about any artist too who tries to describe some piece of art only accomplishes saying nothing with a whole bunch of words?

[antstoney]

low culture, high prices..

[ernstwhere]

Jerry Saltz misses the work by a mile. Murakami's curated show 'Little Boy' at Japan Society explained much art and pop culture is a response to the nuclear attacks, and the responding 'cute' kawaii culture in Japan.. 'Little Boy' was the American name for the bomb. Through this lens Murakama's obsessive and possibly expressive vision is less cotton candy than a rebuke importing ideas and products to a thoughtless country that still is seen as an occupied force in Japan. Warhol? Really?

[mordredt02]

1:50-2:30

I'm reminded of a line in Robot Chicken: "Anime sure is weird!"

[madsketcher]

I'm so glad I went to this last year! The flower room was awesome!

[elel890]

i always thought his art work is sexy.....

well, isn't it?

[MAC616]

classic.He's one of my biggest artistic idols (: makes me want to work even harder to get my art work out there

[wutupdoody]

i wish i could ejaculate like that so much

mmmm

[wazwolf]

@wutupdoody practice makes perfect

[kjjjhkl]

@wutupdoody yeah and imagined if your cum is like that how many bitches could drink it, i know they like it.

[ornleifs]

I loved his comment - "he gives your eye a good time"

So true

[aznbyblood]

those two statues....

[kichan]

I don't care what people think I fucking love Takashi Murakami. He is himself, and he makes unique and colorful art unlike most artists today who do the same "simplistic" emo crap you see over and over.

[rexnickles2]

am i naieve to think that an artist should not take the credit for the work that "more than a hundred people" take the time to make.

sure you can design it...

but you didn't MAKE it...

maybe this should be a show under the "Murakami CO. " name.

i make all my own work by hand...

i dunno, i just think credit should go to where credit is due.

i hate youtube. everone argues.

i look forward to someone telling me "i'm wrong" and "i'm a faggot".

[pointpoint10]

Rexnickles2 this is a very old argument, it's been going on for perhaps the last hundred years and deals with a practice that has likely existed before the idea of "art" per se. Painters have always employed skilled apprentices and laborers to do menial tasks around the studio, attend to simpler parts of the painting process, or even execute completed works. Sculptors in the 20th century relied heavily on materials fabricators to create pieces. Look at Donald Judd or Richard Serra.

[pointpoint10]

Individuals cannot always translate their ideas into finished pieces. At times it can be daunting, time consuming or even impossible. When we enter into various discussion about the properties of what can BE art, questions of production become much more difficult. Take something fairly simple: collage. I use a newspaper photo. I didn't make that photo. Where do the hands of the newspaper editor, photographer, & me start & stop? Painters used to make paint, most don't now. Is Utrecht an artist?

[mcnowski]

listen you faggot, you are wrong on so many levels........just kidding. I sort of agree with you...but at the same time, none of these beautiful pieces would ever see the light of day without the help. The name MURAKAMI is more a movment then it is an artist. Like Warhol, its bluring the line between name and brand I think.

[AristocratsSymphony]

Murakami has said in interviews that he calls himself a designer, and not an artist

[tennyomelime]

It seems he obviously does give his workers credit, considering that it is even know that he employed helpers. I don't really see what is so wrong with the designer being the star since it is his vision. Sometimes people who can follow a blueprint to perfection like this can't come up with their own ideas. It all balances out.

[BTC141]

I love it, I love it. I feel like I've been to a carnival of rides and games on LSD after seeing this. Murakami is amazing. Haterz be gone!!

[mintymunroe]

WOW! i that is so cool! the lactating jumproper and ejaculator boy were a bit random

[HarmfulGravemind]

omg, this is so hilarious xD

[nikelaiUSN]

happy flowers? oh dear god...

[acapulco214]

whoever made those guy + woman statues was....seriously retarded.

[XCasperX666]

1:50-2:30, lol how the hell can he talk about those two pieces without laughing?

[Sprite37]

That is a very very good question

[etheangel2220]

he can probably talk about those two murakami pieces without laughing, because he is not 6 years old...

[cordani]

LOL

[ifnsman]

@XCasperX666 He probably practiced beforehand...

[PrincessKLS]

I love these modern pop icons. Koons also sites Andy Warhol as a role model.

[SilentKnowledge8]

Having to have FACTORIES to be an Artist, means you have to be the Elite Rich to play at art. Murakami represents love of the ROBOT and the battle for Humanity has been lost. PS..Walt Disney's factory productions were never thought to be in an Art Museum in the 1950's...we have dropped so far.

[MickeyTheMoogle]

o.o I'm totally lost in a world of phsycadellic imagination, an explosion

of colorful power to the mind of greatness,

a whimsical land of exotic and flashy designs.

[bummercucumber]

His exhibits are spectacular.

[MyArtIsABang]

Well, this is an overdose of cottoncandy to me. ^//3//^

[HeathAndEr]

Mass ejaculation

[SomeoneOnTheInternet]

Hahaha, yeah I know. He says it like its a normal thing lol!

[balongaboy]

lol

[thereswaterhere]

I would disagree that Murakami's work doesn't intend to evoke anything under its controlling surface (I think there is alot to be said about Japanese lifestyle, culture, history, etc. in his imagery), but good points all around and a great video! You must have been so lucky to be able to wander the gallery on your own. Thanks for this.

[weholdparties]

I totally agree. That man is going to look at camoflagged Luis Vuitton symbols and think there's nothing to it? I think that he fell victim to a large part of Japanese society in that everyone tries to be perfect and "plastic" that's why Japan has the highest suicide rate in the world, and that's why Murakami's bright colors have such sharp teeth.

[nick12506]

Anime has died because of him :(.

[metamaterial]

Interesting, but I don't understand. Why? Surely the forces that kill anime continue their grim work regardless of Murakami's pseudo/commentary? Any entertainment industry I've cared about has seemed to develop a stagnant sepsis as it matured and was segregated into polished, risk-averse labels and daring, nonviable indy artists.

[Amandocrespo]

Images made for a newbie with a handy-cam.... PLEASE!

[cizmthemantiz]

I like mr pointy some and other stuff but for the most part I feel his work is not that original and utter corporate anime garbage

[SuperSaiyanWii]

If it's not that original, who's work does his resemble?

[SquidMaster47]

???

That's all i have to say...

[Pantonesara]

The statements of it are moar awesome than if lets say if an 18 year old highschool student made these. At least it's not sexist, since he decided to make both a male and female splooge statues.

Awesome hilariously disturbing work. XD

[xjoncamposx]

lmao

[fridmark]

muarakami rocks!!! art and business soo nice combination!!! ;)

[buzzpower]

lol ''mass eyaculation'' xD

[theghost1110]

lmao girl "skipping" and the guys "lasoe"

[eternity2109]

he tries too hard when he tries to correctly pronounce " murakami" and " louis vuitton"

[novatron11]

GOD HE'S GREAT!

[richienickel]

amazing.