Takashi Murakami: New Day: Self-Portrait Walther Konig Max Beckmann

Max Beckmann

In these works

and a poem by Mark Waldron

texts from contemporary artists

Documenting the work of the exhibition’s sixty-nine participants in black-and-white images and texts

Takashi Murakami: New Day: Self-Portrait Walther Konig Max BeckmannLaunched in response to the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in the Tohoku region of Japan, Takashi Murakamis New Day initiative began as an open call for visual responses to the disaster, and grew to include exhibitions, artist designed products, and other fundraising ventures. Murakami himself produced several works under the New Day rubric, including this bright self portrait screen print. Uncharacteristically, he pictures himself as distraught, his