Andy Warhol Exhibit At Roppongi Hills

Above, Mori Tower at Roppongi Hills. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

While at Roppongi Hills for a lunch meeting with the team from Japan Travel, I did manage to go up to the top of the Roppongi Hills Mori Tower to see the views of Tokyo from their observatory deck.

While I was at the ticket counter to pay for the Tokyo City View, I did notice that the Andy Warhol exhibit was in progress (it opened February 1 and runs through May 6). I could have visited the Warhol exhibit, but his artwork was not exactly my cup of tea and decided to skip it. However, his art may be your cup of tea and if you are in Tokyo between now and May 6, you might want to see the exhibit. (I did go see the MAM Project 020: Gabriel Acevedo Velarde, which was quite interesting.)

According to RocketNews24:

Even before his first visit in 1956, Andy Warhol had been largely well-received by people in Japan. Pieces like “Campbell’s Soup I” are just as easily recognized here as anywhere along with other pieces of the artist’s highly prolific and vast range of work. But with this massive collection stored far away in The Andy Warhol Museum in America it’s been hard for his Japanese fans to experience it all until now. 

The museum is taking its collection on a tour of Asia including a three-month stay at the Mori Art Museum in Roppongi Hills, Tokyo. The exhibit titled Andy Warhol: 15 Minutes Eternal boasts nearly 700 pieces of art and film as well as some other exhibits designed to take visitors deep into his world as it existed decades ago. 

Of course many of Warhol’s signature works from the “Campbell’s Soup”, “Flowers” and “Death and Disaster” series are there along with his famous celebrity portraits such as Michael Jackson, Marilyn Monroe, and Ryuichi Sakamoto. Works he did with Jean-Michel Basquiat are also on display.

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