Takashi Murakami at Gagosian Gallery, 2014

A video tour of Takashi Murakami's exhibition "In the Land of the Dead, Stepping on the Tail of a Rainbow," the artist's first major solo show in New York since 2009. The show opened on November 10th and will run at Gagosian's 24th Street Gallery until January 17. The exhibition is a large scale presentation of the new themes and motifs which Murakami has developed in recent years, beginning with his 2012 retrospective "Murakami-Ego," held in Doha, Qatar. Conceptually, the works deal with Murakami's interest in the origins of religion, a subject which he began to explore in the aftermath of the 2011 Eastern Japan Earthquake and Tsunami, as well as the relationship between art and disaster, from the natural variety, to man made forms such as war.

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