When Sam Myers was sent to Paris by his law firm in the mid-1960s, he and his wife Myrna became so enamored with the city that they decided to make it their home. There, over the course of fifty years, they built an extraordinary art collection. The Myers ended up assembling some five thousand works that, together, offer a very personal vision of the world of Asian art. “From the Land of Asia: the Sam and Myrna Myers Collection” exhibition currently on view at the Kimbell Art Museum presents over four hundred objects selected from this remarkable collection with works representing key periods in Asian art history.
Photo: Kimbell Art Museum
Japanese artist Takashi Murakami has blurred the boundaries throughout his career between high and low culture, ancient and modern, East and West. “Takashi Murakami: The Octopus Eats Its Own Leg,” at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, is a major retrospective of his paintings, featuring fifty works that span three decades of his career, from the artist’s earliest mature works to his recent, monumentally scaled paintings.
Takashi Murakami, ‘Flower Ball Lots of Colors,’ 2008. Photo: Nathan Keay.
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