It A film adaptation of the Nineties miniseries of the Eighties book that gave everyone everywhere a crippling fear of clowns is finally here, ready to strike red-nosed, clown-feet terror into the 8 Sep heart of a new generation. The pedigree is promising: director Andy Muschietti was behind 2013’s brilliant and unsettling horror Mama, while Cary Fukunaga – of True Detective series one – wrote the script. Even better: this is only part one of a planned duology. Strap in. SM Nimrod Kramer: You never give consists of graffiti-style paintings of ART interviews to Japanese media. Why? his wife in many soulful scenarios Takashi Murakami: The local art (below, inset). The surface and eyes Takashi scene here is in a state of deep exude his peculiar brand of sorrow. appropriation of western trends. I’m NK: Mobile phones in Japan can’t doing something much more local but be muted when taking a picture. Murakami’s it isn’t appreciated here. There’s some What’s going on? jealousy of what I do, too, I guess. TM: This has become the overlaying nuclear family NK: Why Garage in Moscow? ambience in many of my public TM: My art factory in shows. The mandatory Miyoshi, near Tokyo, shutter sound dates back Having established himself alongside is, in a sense, a garage to 2000 and the first cell Jeff Koons and Damien Hirst at the top table of contemporary art, the Japanese and they offered me phones. It cannot be vision king takes his ultra-pop melange of the chance to copy turned off because of bright characters and atomic fallout to it in its entirety in voyeurism and up-skirt Moscow’s Garage Museum Moscow. It will exhibit photography, creeps in five sections, based on the metro taking unholy STORY BY Nimrod Kamer my five practices. The pictures. Many here are e is not related to Geijutsu area will have the protective of public morals renowned author best paintings, the Little Boy and and wary of secret photography. Haruki, but for the first the Fat Man areas will be about the NK: You prefer talking in Japanese H time, Japanese artist effects of nuclear power on Japanese but your social media is in English. Takashi Murakami has visual culture. [Feature film] Jellyfish TM: I can be more concise and direct outdone the writer he shares a name Eyes will be screened at the Kawaii in my born language. Talking about with in online searches and western section and Sutajito will have my my dogma and artistic theorem recognition. After exhibiting at MCA many installations from the studio. requires a better skill than composing in Chicago, Moma and Gagosian in The last section, Asobi & Kazari, a caption to a post. Hashtags will New York and The Broad in LA, this will be spread across the museum’s always be in English, though. month he takes over the esteemed café, bookshop and façade with NK: Any emerging western artist Garage Museum in Moscow, founded parasite ornaments. you can recommend? in 2008 by socialite Dasha Zhukova NK: Do brand artists need TM: Austin Lee from Long Island and her husband, Roman Abramovich. museum-size studios these days? City [New York]. Very young. Born in 1962, Murakami has a TM: Yes, they do. It takes a village Incredibly focused on his blurred, manga-infused manifesto called – it takes a factory – to operate colourful creatures. Go see him. “Superflat”. His magnitude hit home beyond gallery shows and normal NK: In Art Basel Hong Kong, in May when he positioned himself canvases. Especially if you want to you hosted a huge party with alongside Jeff Koons and Damien Hirst create an umbrella of products and Young Lord and Daoko. No other in a notorious Instagram post, as the deliver them to the masses. artists hosted a bash; it was just masters of the art universe. Last June, NK: You also promote Japanese galleries and institutions. Facebook Messenger issued a series of talent, such as Madsaki, who TM: I know. We can’t seem to stop. selfie filters that allowed his stylised showed in your gallery. NK: OK, see you in Gorky Park, flowerhead and octopus to be placed TM: Madsaki is a pseudo-Matisse Moscow, in September. on users’ heads, as well as the glorified, laughing barrel. I discovered him on a TM: Sayonara. G saw-tooth creature Mr DOB. colleague’s Instagram and immediately Under The Radiation Falls is at Garage Cometh the manga: Takashi Murakami negotiated a discount to buy his early Museum Of Contemporary Art, brings his art manifesto to Moscow works. We became good friends. His Moscow, 29 September – 4 February. show Here Today, Gone Tomorrow garagemca.org DON’T MISS What: Jasper Johns: Something What: Jenny Holzer At Blenheim Palace 23 Resembling Truth 28 When: Until 31 December When: Until 10 December Why: US artist Jenny Holzer questions the Why: Jasper Johns’ first UK survey “truths” we are presented by infiltrating show for 40 years features more than public spaces with words (right) written on Sep 150 sculptures, drawings and prints, Sep flyposters, carved in stone and lit in LEDs. including his early, iconic images. Now Her subversive tone appears in delicious 87, he is still a working artist. This is a juxtaposition against this baroque palace. once-in-a-lifetime show. Sophie Hastings Expect site-specific light projections. SH Royal Academy Of Arts, London. Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire. royalacademy.org.uk blenheimpalace.com 000 GQ.CO.UK OCTOBER 2017.