"Little Boy": Japan Society, New York.(Takashi Murakami )

Contemporary Japan is still at heart a defeated Japan. That was the central claim of "Little Boy," the final installment of a series of exhibitions curated by Takashi Murakami around his signature concept, Superflat.

"Little Boy" was the code name for the atomic bomb dropped over Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, and the exhibition aspired, in part, to account for the recurrence of themes relating to nuclear destruction in Japanese visual culture since the end of World War II. To this end, Murakami exhibited a number of clips from relevant live-action and ...

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