At first no one noticed them, the visual footnotes created by Japan’s version of Banksy. The artists – for they are six, not one – go by the name Chimâ??Pom. This had been one of the recent works by the shock-art collective. They discretely painted burned-out nuclear power plants over an existing mural at Tokyo’s busy Shibuya train station […]
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