Classic Meets Modern: Takashi Murakami Exhibition in Versailles
Takashi Murakami has an exhibition at the Château de Versailles, the very place where peasants and regular folk tried to invade and chop the head’s off of King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette in the late 1780s. You know, the kind of a place that represents all that is wrong with upper-class authority and rule, but one of the few times that the “man” got in and made some changes.
Just as Jeff Koons took over Versailles in 2008, Murakami will this year in what is being called “Versailles’ long tradition of openness to creativity.” Not really long tradition of fairness, restraint, and non-corrupt rule, but hey rich people like artists.
We are being too extreme, its cool, a cool show and we like Murakami.
