Japanese art giant Takashi Murakami was in Brooklyn on Friday night to unveil a new sculpture and mural for “Beyond the Streets.”
Murakami completed the installation with a group of Japanese street artists just weeks before the Williamsburg street show that features 150 artists over 100,000 square feet. On June 7, Murakami posted, “Super deadline . . . I have to do!”
The exhibition, hatched by graffiti historian Roger Gastman, also includes work by Shepard Fairey, Keith Haring and Jenny Holzer, plus an archive of Beastie Boys ephemera.
Chris Rock and LL Cool J were at the opening weekend, and both VIPs visited the show’s functioning tattoo shop: an incredibly imagined back-in-the-day Brooklyn haunt called Magic Touch, as created by Smith Street Tattoo Parlour great Bert Krak and production designer Alexis Ross.
The show, and the shop, run through August.