Here’s a review of “Bye Bye Kitty!!! Between Heaven and Hell in Contemporary Japanese Art,” a show currently up in New York City. Rinko Kawauchi gets two sentences here, though it’s a huge group show so that’s no injustice. The writing is confusing (confused), though:
By having the uniquely Japanese sub-cultural ko-gals kill themselves (in a manner drawn from bushido honor code), he gesturally decimates Japan’s most marketable youth.