It’s been more than 20 years since Japanese artist Takashi Murakami collaborated with Louis Vuitton. He was recruited by then-creative director Marc Jacobs to produce a series of bags and ...

Publicity-shy Japanese author Haruki Murakami told his alma mater Tuesday (December 17, 2024) that he was far from a model scholar, as he collected an honorary degree in a rare public appearance.

Gitte Marianne Hansen received funding from AHRC. Haruki Murakami’s most recent novel, The City and its Uncertain Walls, revolves around two parallel stories, one focusing on a 17-year-old boy ...

Look closer, however, and not all is quite as it seems. In his first solo exhibition in the UK for more than 15 years, Takashi Murakami, one of Japan’s most successful post-war artists ...

They understand that there’s a simple recipe for success in any given creative field: Take what you know, do it at as high a level as possible, and if Takashi Murakami comes calling to ...

Tokyo (AFP) – Publicity-shy Japanese author Haruki Murakami told his alma mater Tuesday that he was far from being a model scholar, as he collected an honorary degree in a rare public appearance.

This month, Takashi Murakami will be coming back to London for his biggest show in 15 years. For the uninitiated, this is big news. Murakami is arguably one of the most famous artists in the world ...

As part of his life’s work in making F. Scott Fitzgerald’s books more accessible to Japanese readers, novelist Haruki Murakami has translated and released Fitzgerald’s final novel ...

Shortly before the release of A Wild Sheep Chase, the gleefully madcap debut that shot him to instant stardom, Haruki Murakami published a novella in a Japanese literary magazine. It went mostly ...

Takashi Murakami likes my Salehe Bembury Crocs. He likes them a lot. “Wow!” says the world-renowned Japanese artist, pointing at the fungi-like midsoles of my sneaker. His intense inspection ...