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| Takashi Murakami Flower ball (3D), 2002 Acrylic on canvas mounted on board 39 3/8 inches diameter, 1 15/16 inches depth Private Collection, courtesy of Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris and Miami ©2002 Takashi Murakami/Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd. All Rights Reserved |
A Sociologist's Guided Tour of © MURAKAMI
New Yorkers have until July 13 to catch © MURAKAMI, the first major retrospective of works by Japan's answer to Andy Warhol, at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, before it moves on to Germany's Museum für Moderne Kunst. UCLA sociologist Adrian Favell speaks to SSRC.org about the Takashi Murakami phenomenon: why has he captured the imagination of the West? Favell received an Abe Fellowship to write a book about the flourishing of "Cool Japan" in LA and other major international cities.
Publications
The Measure of America: American Human Development Report 2008-2009
Written, compiled, and edited by Sarah Burd-Sharps, Kristen Lewis, and Eduardo Borges Martins
Soft Power Superpowers: Cultural and National Assets of Japan and the United States
Yasushi Watanabe and David L. McConnell
Darfur: A New History of a Long War (revised and updated)
Julie Flint and Alex de Waal
New at the SSRC
- PRESS RELEASE Redesigned Abe Fellowship Program Offers New Opportunities for International Research and Collaboration
- EVENT The SSRC and Columbia University will cosponsor a conference in honor of Hirschman Prize winner Charles Tilly on Oct. 3-5. See our tributes to Charles Tilly and the interactive version of Tilly's article, "Memorials to Credit & Blame."
- IN THE NEWS See Alex de Waal's reflections on "The Writing Life," along with a brief profile, in the Sunday June 22 Washington Post. See also de Waal's views on Darfur's "spontaneous urbanization" in the Sunday June 8 New York Times Magazine.
- PRESS RELEASE SSRC Announces Grants Totaling $210,000 for Seven Media and Communications Projects
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