• Daggers thrown at Stars

    Daggers thrown at Stars

    Comi Comi, 7:Daggers thrown at Stars Fear drives a cold sweat. “Smallpox vaccination” (1934) & “Women Observing Stars” (1936) are paintings by Ōta Chōu. Seen alongside Toshio Matsumoto, his documentary The Weavers of Nishijin (1961) the Whole Earth Catalog and Apollo 11, they suggest a modern conundrum; who are these…