Bow Down To Royal/T
By
Ken Scrudato
March 07, 2008
As if to prove that contemporary Japanese and American culture are more alike than anyone might care to admit, new Culver City Japanophile art space Royal/T is a relentless playland of pop and kitsch, with here and there nods to somewhat higher-concepts. Under the directorship of American collector Susan Hancock, the gallery’s preview exhibition features everyone from Murakami to Brit stars like Cecily Brown, and a corresponding shop sells bespoke toys and fashions. But it’s the café, with its “youthful” servers in their rather prurient French maid outfits, that’s reminiscent of the Land of the Rising Sun’s ubiquitous pervy underbelly—bearing in mind that here, it’s looky, no touchy.
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