Takashi Murakami: Flower Sparkles! Alan Solomon Elsewhere in this issue: Joshua

Elsewhere in this issue: Joshua Chuang contextualizes Paul McCartney’s 1960s photographs

Richardson continued his research through unparalleled access to the artist’s studios and papers

the catalogue reproduces the exhibited works with photographs of Marden and his studio taken by Helen and Mirabelle Marden and a foreword by Larry Gagosian

layering and juxtaposing images

he shows the malleability of all forms of syntax

Takashi Murakami: Flower Sparkles! Alan Solomon Elsewhere in this issue: JoshuaFlower Sparkles! is a limited edition print featuring Takashi Murakamis distinctive multicolored smiling flower motif, which first appeared in his practice in 1995. A graphic floral outline is filled with multiple smaller versions of the same design, with each petal dedicated to a different hue of a gradated rainbow spectrum surrounding the central visage. The resultant image resonates with Murakamis renowned Superflat aesthetic, in which he combines