"[rustling]" "[mechanical whirring]" "[both speaking Japanese]" "[laughs]" "[gentle organ music]" "♪ ♪" "♪ ♪" "[pounding]" "♪ Food, sex, sleep ♪" "♪ Money, health, flow ♪" "♪ Speed, love, nurse ♪" "♪ Peace, hair, clothes ♪" "♪ Dreams, space, fate ♪" "♪ Trouble, home, flower ♪" "♪ Push, murder, breeze ♪" "♪ Water, curves, tan ♪" "♪ Alone, mirror, truth ♪" "♪ Mother, risk, fall ♪" "♪ Shock, color, caress ♪" "♪ Hands ♪" "♪ Good ♪" "♪ Nasty, heat, please ♪" "♪ Wit, whims, sperm ♪" "♪ Just, you, fool ♪" "♪ Empty, laughs, skin ♪" "♪ Different, smell, third eye ♪" "♪ Hunt, time, fight ♪" "♪ ♪" "♪ Sacrifice ♪" "♪ Nicotine, youth ♪" "♪ Sane, lies, blue ♪" "♪ Info, clear, noise ♪" "♪ Reason, teasing ♪" "♪ Honesty, hard, soft ♪" "♪ Beauty, danger ♪" "♪ Curves, tan ♪" "♪ Alone, mirror, truth ♪" "♪ Mother, risk, fall ♪" "♪ Shock ♪" "♪ Pain, body, fame ♪" "♪ Hear me, free me ♪" "♪ Eat me, kill me ♪" "♪ Give me, form me ♪" "♪ Game me ♪" "♪ Heaven, cold ♪" "♪ Jealous, release ♪" "♪ Subtle, nature ♪" "♪ Shelter, energy ♪" "♪ Flavor, control ♪" "♪ Dirt, street ♪" "♪ Scream, ideas ♪" "♪ True, hell ♪" "♪ ♪" "Here, let's go." "[door beeps] [elevator dings]" "Open sesame." "Boom." "[melancholy piano music]" "♪ ♪" "♪ ♪" "[horn honks]" "[gunfire] [woman screams]" "♪ ♪" "[man grunting] [cat meows] [man grunts]" "[cat yowls]" "♪ ♪" "[water running]" "Big Blue's defense step it up again." "Look at that big sack by Justin Tuck on the Giants' 7-yard line." "[cheerful saxophone music]" "♪ ♪" "Right, right, right." "Little more, little more." "This show in New York which we call" ""Shinohara:" "Wham!" "Pow!" "Vroom!"" "is the idea of action and also "Vroom!" for his motorcycle, because Shinohara has been making sculpture, you know, since the beginning of his artistic career." "He's been famous for, you know, years." "But now is maybe one of his key moments." "[upbeat jazz music]" "♪ ♪" "[speaking Japanese]" "In the 1960s, a Japanese painter came to New York seeking to create art that would reflect the city's prosperity and chaos." "This artist is Ushio Shinohara." "Early morning in SoHo:" "cardboard has been discarded in the streets, and by walking a couple of blocks from his loft," "Shinohara can collect all he needs for his day's work." "At the moment, he is preparing a new sculpture using great amounts of cardboard while his wife, Noriko, works on her own paintings." "[lively jazz music]" "♪ ♪" "As a young man in Tokyo, he emerged as a leader in Japan's avant-garde art movement with his imitation of American pop art and action painting." "♪ ♪" "The quality of Ushio Shinohara's art is, to say the least, in some doubt, but it does illustrate the rather frenetic spirit of rebellion among some young people-- and not only in Japan, throughout the world." "♪ ♪" "When he arrived in the United States, he was at once in the limelight of the mass media." "♪ ♪" "It is said Shinohara is the most famous of the poor and struggling artists in New York." "While his works are exhibited across Japan," "American collectors often say," ""That's a wonderful image but not my taste,"" "so most of Shinohara's pieces have never sold." "Really, what's most important is that moment when he created the painting." "This is a result, but--and a beautiful result-- but also it's the action, so that's where-- the energy is in there." " You've met Ushio." " Nice to meet you again." "Pleasure seeing you." "This is wonderful." "And he also made this extraordinary new sculpture." " It gets very good mileage." " Yeah, I'm sure." "So you put some foam on the top of it, right?" "Yeah." "Two and a half!" "[jazzy piano music]" "♪ ♪" "[pleasant cello plucking]" "♪ ♪" "[glasses clink]" "[car horn honking in distance]" "♪ ♪ [cat yowls]" "[cat purring]" "[phone rings]" "Hold on, please." "She's coming soon." "Hi." "Good morning." "Fine, thank you." "Mm-hmm." "Okay, bye." "[laughter]" "How are you?" "Nice to see you." "Nice to see you." "Congratulations on your show." "Okay, and we'd also like to talk also about the one we're gonna buy for the Guggenheim Museum, which one it will be." "Also, there's a piece that he created." "It's larger, and in fact, this is the detail." "I'm interested in one that has, like, a real historical..." "No, no, no, no." "Yeah, exactly." "Yeah, exactly." "And they're interested-- we're just trying to get" "You know, he needs support, and he needs to be, you know-- and he's getting it now, and so you're also very key, you know, which is really wonderful." "That's great." "Fantastic." "That's good." "[people cheering]" " Can I get a picture with him?" " Okay." "[camera shutter clicks]" "Fantastic." "Fantastic." "Fantastic." "That is fabulous!" "It looks like a poppy field." "Poppy field?" "Oh, yes!" "Afghan poppy field." "Looks like an Afghan poppy field." "Yeah,Poppy Field." "It's definitely a poppy field." "Yeah." "It's so important he's not thinking." "He's doing." "It's so visceral." "It's so different from Pollock." "Pollock was actually consciously..." "It's very, very powerful." "You know, I want to work to try and find funders who can help us acquire the work." "We want one that has some historical resonance." "But what other ones exist?" "The Kamakura one was photographed in the..." "Art in America." "It showed in Art in America." "Okay, so that's the kind of thing that they like." "That's the kind of thing I need." "Can you show me a picture of that?" " We have a copy of..." " We'll give it to you, yeah." "Yeah, yeah, let's go take a look." "Noriko, I like this one." "I'd prefer this one." "Oh." "Oh, okay." "But there-- maybe we can work it out." "We have to be sure that Ushio and Noriko benefit." "Exactly." "No, no, that's" " But we can work this out." "I mean, it's all-- we can negotiate this." "No, no, no, arigato, arigato." "No, I appreciate that." "No, I appreciate that." "Okay, so I need to do something." "It's gonna take some time." "I mean, I'm sorry." "You've already been so patient with me." "It's just, you know, we're just..." "I'm doing a start-up." "Ready?" "One." "Two." "Three." "[camera shutter clicks]" "[slurps]" "[angelic harp music] [serene orchestral music] [phone rings]" "♪ ♪ [women giggling]" "Yahoo!" "[laughing]" "♪ ♪ [ice cubes rattling] [pan sizzling]" "[gulping] [door slams]" "♪ ♪ [cat meows]" "♪ ♪ [mumbling]" "[women giggling] [camera shutter clicks] [baby crying]" "[thunder booming] [baby crying]" "[door clicks open]" "[water running]" "Uh, I'm okay." "[water fizzes]" "Hey." "[cat purring softly]" "Can I have a little bit?" "[cat meows]" "[laughs]" "[indistinct chatter]" "[singing incoherently]" "[water running] [singing softly]" "[cat yelps]" "[whistling] [cat purring]" "[blower whirring]" "[peaceful horn music]" "♪ ♪" "♪ ♪" "♪ ♪" "[melancholy piano music]" "♪ ♪" "♪ ♪" "[laughter]" " Hi." " Hi." "I like this very much." "Even from afar I could see something stronger here." "Something strong is here." "Very nice." "[doorbell ringing]" "Oh, thank you." "[water running]" "[bell dings]" "Ooh, good smell." "[languid atmospheric music]" "♪ ♪" "♪ ♪" "[laughs]" "♪ ♪" "[waves lapping]" "[scribbling]" "Huh." "[cell phone ringtone playing]" "[indistinct chatter]" "[soft harp music]" "♪ ♪" "[phone rings]" "Hello?" "How are you?" "I bought 15 pounds of white pigment color." " 15 pounds?" " Yeah." "It was" " Why?" " Why?" "I'm gonna have an exhibition, and now I'm painting at the gallery." "I'm using a big brush and a small brush and big Cuties." "Jealousy, jealousy." "Big jealousy." "[somber piano music]" "♪ ♪" "[bell rings]" "[mechanical whirring]" "[imitates whooshing]" "[Ushio sighs]" "[chuckles]" "[languid atmospheric music]" "♪ ♪" "Mm." "♪ ♪ [coughs]" "♪ ♪ [indistinct chatter]" "[melancholy piano music]" "♪ ♪" "[playful saxophone music]" "♪ ♪" "[tool whirring]" "♪ ♪" "[grunting]" "♪ ♪" "[Ushio singing softly]" "Celery, okay." "[pan sizzling]" "[sizzling continues]" "[soft saxophone music]" "♪ ♪" "[laughter]" "[laughter]" "[soft piano music]" "♪ ♪" "both:" "Quick, quick, slow." "Quick, quick, slow." "♪ ♪" "♪ ♪" "[indistinct chatter]" "♪ ♪" "[whimsical saxophone music]" "♪ ♪"