You’ll have seen this new Yoshitomo Nara exhibition on posters and buses and, if you have children, you’ll have received sudden enthusiasm for going to an art show, since Nara’s famed huge-eyed characters, for all their sullenness, are Jellycat-level appealing.
And this show is indeed a trip into a childhood world, a kawaii (cute) culture merch-shifter with disturbing undertones. But it isn’t some subversion of kids’ content, one of those snickering stoner cartoons where the talking dogs swear.
