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At Lehmann Maupin through June 23
Paintings and sculptures of wide-eyed teens are critical of anime and its fascination with young, scantily clad protagonists.
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At Gagosian Gallery through June 9
Murakami largely sets aside his usual candy-colored characters and compositions in favor of a more traditional subject: Daruma, the patriarch of Zen Buddhism who is said to have endured nine years of sleepless meditation.
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Anime Planet
Cartoony imagery gets at serious themes in these shows by Japanese artists—one a contemporary star, the other relatively new to the New York scene.
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