In honor of the Murakami exhibition being held in their hometown, Brooklyn, at the Brooklyn Museum on April 5th, Lemar & Dauley is releasing a limited release of its “Spread Luv” t-shirt.
The “Spread Luv” BK edition will be released to select retailers on April 12th, limited to 92 (as in 1992) units manufactured and distributed. The colorways are Salmon Red and Blizzard white. Note the “Murakami” star in the design.

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We reported about the new exhibition by Takashi Murakami exhibition opening at the Brooklyn Museum end of the week.
April 5–July 13, 2008
Morris A. and Meyer Schapiro Wing and Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Gallery
4th and 5th Floors
The NY Times has a look at the space, some artworks and also the tremendous work involved with moving the exhibition from LA to Brooklyn. Check out the slideshow here.

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Here comes a nice anecdote from LA Weekly. End of last year a massive billboard was put up in LA for the exhibition of Takashi Murakami. Not long after it went up it was tagged by Augor and Revok of MSK and Seventh Letter Crew. Somebody send pictures of it to Murakami. He liked it so much, that he had the billboard removed and shipped back to his Kaikai Kiki studio in Tokyo. Via Wooster Collective.

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Once again KaiKai Limited has released a new series of Takashi Murakami prints. This time they dropped the “Creatures of Planet 66″ series, all in all a collection of 4 prints. They are all now available in the Honeyee Store.

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Kaikai Kiki released some nice new Murakami works. Overall four new pieces are now available from the Honeyee Store. Make sure to check it out!

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Takashi Murakami, an artist that we have followed and admired for quite some time now, has recently opened his most comprehensive and complete exhibition to date at the MOCA in Los Angeles. The exhibition his showing works from the early days up until now and has a vibrant mix of paintings and sculptures. The ones among you that cannot make it to the exhibition have the chance to get an idea of what there is to see here thanks to the Hundreds.
The museum also worked with Louis Vuitton and set up a store selling collaborative items of the French luxury brand and the artist, a collaboration that has already been going on a couple of years.
Now have a look after the jump at one of moderns art most influential artists and enjoy.

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As usual, the Supreme news come in Monday morning. This time they announced an exciting collaboration with two Japanese artists. Supreme will release a series of limited edition skateboard decks designed by artists Takashi Murakami and Mr. The series will consist of three decks designed by each artist.

They will be available exclusively through the six Supreme stores (New York, Los Angeles and four locations throughout Japan) and selected retail accounts.

On September 20th, the skate decks will also be available in their new online shop (u.s. only). Just a few months ago Supreme launched their first website, which was already unexpected. An online store was definitely the last thing we would ever see from Supreme. Unfortunately the online store is U.S. only.
Otherwise this is just another impressive collaboration by the NYC brand. Thanks to them some of us get our hands on artwork that is otherwise too expensive and unattainable.
Check out all decks in detail after the jump.

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It’s been officially confirmed that a corporate Louis Vuitton shop will be situated in the middle of TAKASHI MURAKAMI’s forthcoming retrospective exhibit at LA’s MoCA (Oct 29—Feb 11). The shop will offer limited-edition handbags and small leather goods featuring Murakami designs including the ones shown after the jump at prices ranging from $875 to $920. Via Supertouch.

It’s a first for an American museum and for sure exciting for all Murakami and Louis Vuitton fans out there.

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