Reblog from hintmag:
“Godzilla, Hello Kitty and her fellow feline Doraemon are among the cast of characters making an appearance in Little Boy: The Arts of Japan’s Exploding Subculture, an exhibition at the Japan Society that’s packed with all the punch of a pachinko parlor. However, much more than just fun and games, the show reveals what lies beneath the candy-colored surface.
Curated by Japan’s neo-Pop answer to Warhol, the artist and intermittent Louis Vuitton handbag designer Takashi Murakami, Little Boy is out to show that the cutesy critters, doe-eyed prepubescents and science fiction fantasies that permeate Japan’s pop culture are a deeply embedded response to World War II and its aftermath