Ed Schad
Ed Schad is Curator and Publications Manager at The Broad in Los Angeles. His writing has been included in Art Review, Frieze, Modern Painters, Flash Art, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. He teaches at Claremont Graduate University.
In April, Ed Schad spoke with Takashi Murakami over Zoom. Schad was in Los Angeles; Murakami was at his studio in Saitama, Japan. They spoke on the eve of a presentation of Murakami’s work at Gagosian in New York, where the artist is currently showing a series of works centered on both Utagawa Hiroshige’s “100 Famous Views of Edo” (1856–58) and the concept of Japonisme as found through the late nineteenth century, especially in Whistler’s painting. Murakami has since also opened a show at the Cleveland Museum of Art, which is a larger survey of his work curated by Schad. The purpose of this interview is to give an audience in the United States some insight into the new projects that Murakami has been working on, especially since his exhibition last year in Kyoto, his largest ever in Japan.
