Yoshitomo Nara

$59.95 at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

Edited by Mika Yoshitake. Text by Michael Govan and Yoshitomo Nara. Yoshitomo Nara is among the most beloved Japanese artists of his generation. His widely recognizable portraits of menacing figures reflect the artist’s raw encounters with his inner self. Nara’s oeuvre takes inspiration from a wide range of resources—memories of his childhood, music, literature, studying and living in Germany (1988–2000), exploring his roots in Japan, Sakhalin and Asia, and modern art from Europe and Japan. Spanning 35 years…