"My Reality: Contemporary Art and the Culture of Japanese Animation"
2001-07-27 until 2001-10-07
Brooklyn Museum of Art
Brooklyn, NY, USA

Synergies between Japanese and American popular culture are explored in this showcase of photography, painting, sculpture, and video that investigates the influence of Japanese animation (anime) and techno-culture on art. Anime is incredibly versatile in its ability to comment on social and sexual mores, gender roles, and traditional values in the face of an increasingly alien future.

The exhibition features work by Takashi Murakami, Mariko Mori, Paul McCarthy, and Charlie White among others.

This exhibition was originally curated by Jeff Fleming, Senior Curator, and Susan Lubowsky Talbott, Director of the Des Moines Art Center. The exhibition is coordinated at the Brooklyn Museum of Art by Charlotta Kotik, Department Chair of Contemporary Art.

An illustrated catalogue co-published by the Des Moines Art Center and Independent Curators International accompanies My Reality.

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