
REVIEWS
TOYOTA
Toyota Municipal Museum of Art
Yoshitomo Nara
For Better or Worse, Works 1987-2017
YOSHITOMO NARA, Romantic Catastrophe,
1988, Acrylic and colored pencil on canvas, 117 x 91 cm.
Courtesy Yoshitomo Nara Studio, Tokyo.
If we consider the title of Yoshitomo Nara’s first major retrospective exhibition in Japan, “For Better or Worse,” as part of a vow, then what was the artist’s pledge? The answer lay in the mammoth show’s roughly 100 works—a “studio,” a room of drawings, two sculptures, a whimsical house made in collaboration with design team graf and…