![\"Aya](\"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/photos\/Aya_01.jpg\")
<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
![\"aya](\"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/photos\/Aya___4.jpg\")
<\/p>\n
AYA TAKANO at the opening of ‘Little Boy: The Arts of Japan’s Exploding Subculture’,
\nJapan Society, April 7, 2005
\n& one of her paintings from that show.
\nPhotos: Nancy Smith<\/p>\n
an item on AYA TAKANO first posted on THE BOMB – MARCH 20, 2006.<\/a><\/p>\n we can’t get out of our head the buzz that recently surfaced about Ms. Takano from the recent ARMORY ART FAIR 2007, in a NEW YORK TIMES article (published March 3, 2007) – that chronicled the art buying adventures of “new” collector SUSAN HANCOCK. <\/p>\n Her first stop at the fair: ” . . . Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, which is based in
\nParis and represents the Japanese artist Aya Takano. Ms. Hancock has been collecting Ms. Takano’s paintings, cartoonish and colorful, for two years.
\n” … she had already committed to purchasing one large painting.
\n” … The piece, ‘Stuffed Animal Room’, cost $70,000.
\n” … “I’m in love with all her paintings, but there were alot … that were very sexually explicit, and I have a bunch of neices who come to visit,” Ms. Hancock said. “The stuffed animals are a lot safer.”<\/p>\n