Making the Indoors Safe for Hippies

ON megumi Akiyoshi’s FLOWER gallery brings to mind Japanese mastermind Takashi Murakami, and this summer’s Whitney blowout, “Summer of Love.� With this hand-painted room, installed on the second floor of Japan Society as part of its highly anticipated, recently opened “Making a Home: Japanese Contemporary Artists in New York,� Akiyoshi, who often dons similarly patterned getups for her performance pieces, appeals to aging hippies, psychedelic aesthetes, and pothead college students the city over. —Rachel Wolff