An installation view of “Japanese Art History à la Takashi Murakami” at Gagosian in Grosvenor Hill, London. Courtesy the artist and Gagosian “Japanese Art History à la Takashi Murakami ...

The 63-year-old Japanese artist Takashi Murakami, the oldest son of a taxi driver and a homemaker, grew up in a one-room apartment in northern Tokyo. As a child, he’d accompany his parents on ...