A Hello Kitty plush doll from 1976
Hello Kitty first made her way to the United States in 1976. This plush doll, from the same year, will be the oldest item on view at an exhibition devoted to the cartoon icon at the Japanese American...
View ArticleFrom penguins to Sputnik: LACMA's modern kimono show is off the hook
Looping rainbows, twisting lines, wild mountainscapes, penguins on ice floes and even a Soviet satellite. I walked into the Japanese pavilion at the L.A. County Museum of Art the other day expecting an...
View ArticleBabymetal shreds heavy-metal's seriousness at the Fonda
The most subversive, rage-inducing act in heavy metal played the Fonda on Sunday night. The group is fronted by three Japanese teenage girls in pigtails who make heart-shaped hand gestures onstage and...
View ArticleWhat happens when you say Hello Kitty is not a cat? Kitty chaos
So you pour your heart and soul into essays about race and prisons ... then an anthropologist tells you that Hello Kitty isn't a cat and, well, the Internet explodes (complete with Aaron Paul animated...
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