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  MANGA IN MANHATTAN
Photos by Paul Laster
"Little Boy: The Arts of Japan's Exploding Subculture,"
an exhibition organized by Takashi Murakami, opens at Japan Society in New York, Apr. 7, 2005
 
 
Artist Aya Takano		  
Takashi Murakami signing the "Little Boy"
exhibition catalogue		  
Artist Chiho Aoshima		  
Artist Chinatsu Ban		  
 
 
   
Japan's Society museum chief Alexandra Munroe (since resigned) and MoMA curator Barbara London		  
Film producer Lisa Hsu and In Spite of Everything blogger Steven Chen		  
Chelsea art dealer Peter Miller and Bronx Museum curator Lydia Yee		    
 
 
 
SCAI the Bathhouse president
Masami Shiraishi		  
Artist Hideaki Kawashima		  
Artist Kenny Scharf sporting a
Dearraindrop t-shirt		  
Artist Yoshitomo Nara		  
 
 
   
Neon Genesis Evangelion
animator Yasuhiro Kamimura		  
Fluxus wiz Jon Hendricks, performance art scholar RoseLee Goldberg and Bin Bin High! organizer Pierce Jackson		  
Paris dealer Emmanuel Perrotin and exhibition curator Takashi Murakami		    
 
 
 
The Armory Show's Timothy Smith with a "Hello Kitty" display		  
Designer Shige Suzuki of Taneisha		  
Nicelle Beauchene of Marianne Boesky Gallery		  
Artist Noboru Tsubaki		  
 
 
   
Kicell, Murakami's favorite band,
performing at the opening		  
Artist Mahomi Kunitaka signing the exhibition catalogue		  
Artist Lisa Corinne Davis and Basquiat biographer Phoebe Hoban		    
 
 
   
Artist Angelo Filomeno with sculpture by Izumi Kato		  
United Nations intern Maho Furuya		  
Tokyo dealer Tomio Koyama with a work by Hideaki Kawashima