The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York has recalled one of its store's popular holiday gift items, a series of snow globes designed by Japanese contemporary artist Yoshitomo Nara, because they "can crack or fracture, posing a laceration hazard".
According to a report on the US Consumer Product Safety Commission's website, around 1,915 of the cutesy Little Wanderer snow globes, which retailed for $85 each while they were on sale last November via the MoMA Design Store's physical locations and website, have been sold. Buyers are eligible for a full refund, and are urged to "stop using and discard the recalled snow globes". A statement on the MoMA Design Store's website adds that it "has received 39 reports of the snow globe cracking or fracturing. No injuries have been reported."
And while these particular Nara snow globe characters have met an ignoble fate, they are hardly his only experiments with the form. An online catalogue raisonné maintained by the artist's foundation lists three other snow globe products by the artist that remain in circulation.
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