Yasumasa Morimura: Animai-no-bi (Ambiguous Beauty) Fashion Gift Manufactured by Louis Poulsen in

Manufactured by Louis Poulsen in Denmark from drawn aluminum

Otto Steinert

Yoko Ono's Grapefruit is a whimsical

his work empathizes with the dizzying madness of our own humanity as it engages both so-called high and low culture

Yasumasa Morimura: Animai-no-bi (Ambiguous Beauty) Fashion Gift Manufactured by Louis Poulsen inYasumasa Morimura is a Japanese photographer and appropriation artist who frequently borrows historic and iconic images and recreates them using his own face and body. Through his work, Morimura has borrowed images from artists ranging from Manet and Rembrandt to Cindy Sherman and Frida Kahlo as a means to explore issues of identity, gender, politics, and art history. For this work, Morimura photographed himself as Marilyn Monroe in her first Playboy