Murakami to show his art collection

Takashi Murakami is known as a patron of young Japanese artists through his Kaikai Kiki organisation, but it has been revealed that he is a long-time supporter of established international artists as well. Murakami’s collection, which includes works by Anselm Kiefer, Yoshitomo Nara, Gabriel Orozco and Grayson Perry, as well as historic pieces such as antique ceramics, will be shown for the first time at the Yokohama Museum of Art in Japan (30 January-3 April 2016). The collection includes an edition of Perry’s cast-iron sculpture The Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman, the centrepiece of the Turner Prize-winning artist’s solo show at the British Museum, London, in 2012.