Takashi Murakami Aspires to Have Own Brand of Bottled Water

Artist Takashi Murakami is thirsty for a new challenge: his own brand of bottled water. “My dream is to be in the water business!” he tells curator Allison Gingeras in a terrific Q&A published in the August issue of Interview. Like Murakami bottled water? “Exactly. It’s a natural concept because I realized the U.S. is really big, so maybe I’ll be able to find a good spring,” he says with a laugh. “It will be my original type of Evian or something like that.