Cleveland Museum of Art welcomes new exhibit: 'Stepping on the Tail of a Rainbow'

Cleveland Museum of Art hosts massive Takashi Murakami exhibition

The exhibition “almost didn’t happen.” A few years ago, Ed Schad, curator and publications manager at The Broad, a contemporary art museum in Los Angeles, certainly wasn’t feeling optimistic about the prospects for an exhibition of the colorful and playful but also contemplative and thought-provoking work of Japan’s Takashi Murakami. “Like everybody else, I was in my room looking at a computer screen surrounded by COVID and locked down,” Schad s…

Cleveland Museum of Art’s blockbuster Murakami exhibit is a poignant, playful view of a ‘post

One of the most influential artists on global popular culture has landed at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Takashi Murakami's "Rainbow" exhibition is stunning and very much a coup for the museum who hosted another hugely influential artist of the same caliber (Yayoi Kusama) only a handful of years ago. In a word: the exhibition is glorious.

Cleveland Museum of Art welcomes new exhibit: 'Stepping on the Tail of a Rainbow'

The Cleveland Museum of Art has a new exhibit -- Stepping on the Tail of a Rainbow. It features the work of Takashi Murakami and runs from May 25 through Sept. 7.