PARIS — Pharrell Williams has found a happy place for his inner child, and it’s a manga-style fantasy in which children have taken up arms. That’s the gist of “A Call To Action,” a new exhibition the American singer, producer and entrepreneur has curated for the Guimet Museum, a collection of Asian art here. The show was created at Mr. Williams’s invitation by Mr., a 49-year-old Japanese visual artist known for his colorful work inspired by the manga and anime traditions. The main figures in this post-apocalyptic scene are young boys and girls, and most of them are carrying multicolored guns. Mr. Williams is a collector of Mr.’s work, which “just seems like it’s from the point of view of a perpetual teenager,” the singer said in an interview in the exhibition space last week.

Source: International New York Times July 17, 2019 08:03 UTC