The Japanese artist Yoshitomo Nara paints large-headed children against monochrome backgrounds—haunting symbols of universality that are at once cute and disturbing. Nara takes inspiration from many sources: literature, modern art, Japanese art, as well as memories of childhood and his 12 years living in Germany. He believes emotion lives in the eyes, and he paints them disproportionately large, wide-set, and unsettling. This exhibition, which includes more than 150 drawings, paintings, sculptures, installations, and ceramics, explores Nara’s varied influences, from rock and punk to nature and mythology. —Elena Clavarino