Takashi Murakami has a retrospective at the Brooklyn Museum. He lives in a cartoon world. His work has been derided by some as representative of "infantile capitalism." He has been influenced by Warhol's consumerism. See also - Japanese Manga & Anime.
Anyway, I found this to be a telling detail about him: "His mother impressed upon him that he owed his existence to the chance that the sky above her native city, Kokura was overcast on August 9, 1945, thus diverting the B-29 to its secondary target, Nagasaki."
