MOCA Daytrip to MurakamiLAND

Since this is the first year both Henry and Rhys are in school and currently on break, it feels doubly important to make the best of their time off by occupying their time with as many activities as we can muster up.

So for our first post Christmas outing we decided to take them to MOCA to see the Takashi Murakami exhibit. It's been a while since we've hung out in Downtown LA, it's been a few years since we had a membership at MOCA. We first visited the main museum and checked out Cosima Von Bonin's Roger and Out exhibit, which was a lot of fun. I loved her large stuffed animals.


It was pretty amusing and works as a nice accompaniment to Murakami. Unfortunately the Murakami exhibit is actually housed at the Geffen Contemporary, a satellite building a dozen blocks away next to the Japanese-American Museum. We ended up driving down to Little Tokyo and exploring that side of town as well as the exhibit.


I loved the exhibit! One of my favorite pieces is called 'That I may time transcend, that a universe my heart may unfold'. Pictured Above. I was amazed by the more sensational but risque pieces such as 'My Lonesome Cowboy' and 'Second Mission Project Ko2'. Wow.


The exhibit covered pretty much every aspect of media that one can enter in these modern days. There were tons of 2D pieces from prints, paintings to wall paper. Sculputures were everywhere, oftentimes making you feel you were in a tripped out version of Murakami-land. There were videos of his creations as well as his work for Louis Vuitton which were represented by this incredible Louis Vuitton store they had assembled inside the gallery!


Rhys was as well behaved as we could expect. It was a good first try.