Happiness: a Survival Guide for Art and Life.

MORI ART MUSEUM

Sing hallelujah, c'mon, get happy! Songs about happiness often lend toward the manic or the maudlin, but with luck the rule won't also apply to exhibitions. Critic Pier Luigi Tazzi and Mori Museum director David Elliott have gathered some 150 works, spanning from antiquity to the present, for the institution's opening show in order to consider happiness under four headings: Arcadia, Nirvana, Desire, and Harmony. Visitors will be able to view works by over a hundred artists--including Constable, Monet, Warhol, and Murakami--on exhibit on the fifty-second and fifty-third floors of one of Tokyo's tallest buildings. And as de Certeau once observed, "It's hard to be down when you're up." Oct. 18-Jan. 18.--RW