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Podcast: Commonwealth Club of California Podcast
Episode: Takashi Murakami: Unfamiliar People—Swelling of Monsterized Human Ego
Description: Join Rob Mintz, chief curator at the Asian Art Museum, and Laura Allen, the museum's Senior Curator of Japanese Art for an engaging conversation about Murakami's blockbuster exhibition Unfamiliar People: The Swelling of Monsterized Human Ego. The show, four years in the making, takes anime and manga to new heights. This is Takashi Murakami's first solo exhibition in San Francisco. The exhibit is not only a commentary on our society, it's a nuanced examination of human behavior within an extraordinary artistic framework.Laura Allen has known Murakami since the Fall of 2019, when she visited the artist in his...