Takashi Murakami: Smiley Days with Ms. Flower to You! Rings in 2026—including intimate shots of

in 2026—including intimate shots of his collaborator Lulu Sylbert and outtakes from a look around painter John Currin’s studio commissioned by ArtReview magazine—the book further stakes its maker’s claim to the intersection of consumption

It reproduces all the works in the show alongside installation photography

Extensively illustrated and featuring a foreword by David Hockney

Takashi Murakami and Virgil Abloh collaborated to create a collection of handbags combining the multidirectional arrow logo of Abloh’s street-couture label Off-White and an image of Mr

and a poem by Patricia Waters that reads “Rose / Brief

Takashi Murakami: Smiley Days with Ms. Flower to You! Rings in 2026—including intimate shots ofSmiley Days with Ms. Flower to You! is a limited edition print featuring Takashi Murakamis distinctive multicolored smiling flower motif. With his distinctive Superflat style and ethos, Murakami employs highly refined classical Japanese painting techniques to depict a supercharged mix of Pop, anime, and otaku content within a flattened representational picture plane, moving freely within an ever expanding field of aesthetic issues and cultural