Yasumasa Morimura may not be an actor, but he knows his way around a costume. The Japanese artist has spent the last 30 years shooting self-portraits dressed as a wide range of historical figures, ...

In Yasumasa Morimura’s versions of Manet’s glorious canonical nude Olympia, the artist gazes stoically back at the camera, a carefully placed-hand demurely concealing his modesty, kicking off a pair ...

Yasumasa Morimura, Une Moderne Olympia (2018). Courtesy of the artist and Luhring Augustine, New York. © Yasumasa Morimura. For over 30 years, artist Yasumasa ...

Yasumasa Morimura is a contemporary Japanese appropriation artist whose work consists of inserting his face and body into portraits of artists and celebrities from history. Similar to American ...

"Self Portrait no. 56 (After Marilyn Monroe)" (1995) is a rare, silver gelatin photograph by Japanese Contemporary artist, Yasumasa Morimura (Japan, b. 1951). Here, the artist poses dressed as Marilyn ...

Born within three years of each other, in Osaka in 1951 and New Jersey in 1954, Yasumasa Morimura and Cindy Sherman have made an art form out of personifying alter egos for the camera. While working ...

Now along comes Japanese photographer Yasumasa Morimura,40,redoing Rembrandt, Manet, Rossetti, van Gogh and others, and declaring that "My works are the paintings that the artists would have created ...

With “Yasumasa Morimura and Cindy Sherman: Masquerades”, Hong Kong’s M+ museum has set up a face-off of sorts between two of contemporary art’s most famous selfie takers. Nearly 200 photographic ...

Today, photography is, without any doubt, the most accessible art form. Everyone owns a camera nowadays, as we all carry smartphones in our pockets or purses. The exhibition ‘Prism of the Real’ at ...