The New Christy Minstrels throughout its run. After the group toured Europe in early 1965, McGuire left to embark on a solo career, and this spelled the end of the original New Christy Minstrels. Now under the direction of Greif and Garris the group moved towards a variety act, doing "novelty and pop tunes" and a little comedy, making them closer to the 19th century Christy's Minstrels from whom the group's name was derived. Reflecting this shift, they had a "Billboard" Top 100 hit later in 1965 with a cover of "Chim Chim Cher-ee" from the Disney film "Mary Poppins". Regular group membership changes
Chim-Pom to resemble Pikachu, the naming a riff on Takashi Murakami's "Superflat" reading of Japanese aesthetics. Mori Art Museum (JAPAN) Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (JAPAN) The Japan Foundation (JAPAN) 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa (JAPAN) Asia Society Museum, New York (U.S.A.) Queensland Art Gallery (AUSTRALIA) “SUPER RAT” (Parco Publishing, 2012)<br> “idea ink 03 – Geijutsu Jikkohan” (written by Chim↑Pom, Asahi Publishing, 2012)<br> “Chim↑Pom” (Kawade Shobo Shinsha, 2010)<br> “Why we can’t make the sky of Hiroshima ‘PIKA!’?” (co-edited by Chim↑Pom and Abe Kenichi, MUJIN-TO Production, 2009) Chim-Pom Chim-Pom (stylized "Chim↑Pom") is an artist collective formed in Tokyo in 2005,