Kirsten Dunst transformed herself on the cover of V Magazine's upcoming issue. After a short break from acting, Kirsten will return to the spotlight next month in All Good Things with Ryan Gosling. She opens up to the magazine about her time away from Hollywood and her strong relationships with the Mulleavy sisters, the creative force behind the fashion house of Rodarte. She also shares about her relationship with influential Japanese artist Takashi Murakami and their collaboration on a small art film last year.

Here's more: Rodarte's Mulleavy sisters on Kirsten: "She has a magical quality that all the greats, like Mia Farrow, have had before. You fall in love with her as a real person. She is both a character actor and a leading lady, which is a rare combination." On her upcoming role in All Good Things: "I know I’ll be seen in a very different light. This role is the most I can show of myself and I think it’s the best work I’ve ever done, for sure.

On future plans: "I want to do great work and work with great directors and do great movies and produce great films. I have criteria for myself that are probably too hard to ever meet, but I’m going to try." Kirsten on working with Murakami: "I was just so surprised by how kind and humble he was, I usually think artists are complicated by ego. But he giggles like a little kid and gets so excited."

Kirsten Dunst believes her performance in new movie All Good Things is the best work she has ever done. The 27-year-old actress - who appeared in Interview With.

The Vampire when she was just 12 - plays a young wife in an abusive relationship in the film, which she began filming just after she left Utah's Cirque Lodge treatment centre where she was treated for depression in 2008. Kirsten told V Magazine:

I know I'll be seen in a very different light - this role is the most I can show of myself and I think it's the best work I've ever done, for sure." Ryan Gosling also stars in the film.

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Kirsten Dunst graces the new cover of V magazine, which hits newsstands today, and looks stunning in a spread shot by world renowned photographer Mario Testino.

In the issue, the 27-year-old actress Kirsten talks about her upcoming role in the film "All Good Things," and gives us the scoop on what’s next for her career.

Kirsten may have been out of the spotlight for a while, but that doesn’t mean she hasn’t been hard at work. She thinks people will be surprised by the role she plays in her new film, and she tells V, “I know I’ll be seen in a very different light.

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Things have been quiet on the Kirsten Dunst front lately — then we found this. The Akihabara Majokko Princess music video, starring Kirsten lipsyncing to a version of 'Turning Japanese'. Hey, at least she's looking less depressed/dishevelled than she has lately...

There are two things my closest friends know about me, and lucky you, I’m willing to share them now. The first is that I hate  with an undying passion  Jimmy Buffett.

His music is what I imagine plays somewhere in the sixth or seventh layer of hell and as a born Floridian, it’s insulting that he’s an icon for an already unjustly tarnished state.

The second thing, however, is that I’m head over Chucks for Kirsten Dunst. So, you could imagine.

My minor cardiac arrest when I stumbled upon her new trendy-as-fuck music video, where she covers.

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Weird things come out of Japan. This isn't a negative value judgment mind you, simply an observation. Weird things come out of Canada too (see also: curling), it's just a cultural difference sort of thing. Still, really weird things come out of Japan when viewed in the context of a Western mindset.

This might not be the strangest thing you see all week, but it's definitely surreal. "Spider-Man" star Kirsten Dunst does some wacky cosplay and dances through.

The streets of Akibahara in Japan, singing the classic '80s ditty from The Vapors, "Turning Japanese." Not strange enough for you? How about the fact that McG directed it? Yeah, I thought that'd do it.

For the recent Pop Life show in London's Tate Gallery, Kirsten Dunst got together with artist Takashi Murakami to perform in a music video. And you will have problems to find one that is more colourful and camp.

Yes, she is dressed like Sailor Moon, wearing a light blue wig, and sings the 1980 Vapors hit Turning Japanese dancing around in the Tokyo's electric shopping district Akihabara.As cities get bigger and bigger, some fear nature is being sidelined.

However, nature is capable of adapting – as shown in this video in which a rather confident pigeon takes the train instead of flying. Yes, you read that correctly.

Also fascinating is the 11-year-old sword-wielding and gunp-toting Hit Girl from the forthcoming movie Kick Ass, starring Nicolas Cage. The movie takes the superhero theme back to where it belongs, to kids.

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Hollywood actress Kirsten Dunst has a new rock star boyfriend - she's dating Rilo Kiley drummer Jason Boesel, according to reports. The Spider-Man star has been linked to the percussionist over the last few weeks and she turned out on Friday night (19Feb10) to watch her beau perform a solo show in New York.

The star, who previously dated Razorlight frontman Johnny Borrell, was seen supporting her new man at The Bowery Ballroom gig and again the next day for another solo show in Boston, Massachusetts.Dunst has previously been romantically linked to playwright Jeff Smeenge and actor Jake Gyllenhaal.

The latest work from Japanese pop artist Takashi Murakami is a bizarre music video featuring Kirsten Dunst performing "Turning Japanese" by The Vapors.

The actress is costumed in a brightly colored, anime-inspired outfit complete with electric blue wig. As she performs the song in the busy Akihabara district of Tokyo, she's surrounded by, you know, actual Japanese who look on curiously.

The video was directed by American filmmaker and music video director McG, whose feature credits include the two Charlie's Angels movies and Terminator: Salvation.

He may not have the art world cachet that Murakami does, but he's a pop artist in his own right, filling each frame with larger-than-life images. The internet has been all "WTF?" about the clip, but as it turns out it was part of an art exhibit last year at the Tate Modern, "Pop Life: Art in a Material World."

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In August 2009, American actress Kirsten Dunst was spotted running around Tokyo's Akihabara district in an outfit reminiscent of "Sailor Moon." It turned out Dunst was filming a video with director McG called "Akihabara Majokko Princess" for artist and business entrepreneur Takashi Murakami's "Pop Life" exhibition at London's Tate Gallery (closed on January 17, 2010).

Now the film has leaked online, and in accordance with initial rumors, Dunst does sing the 1980 Vapors' hit "Turning Japanese" -- a song that may not be about masturbation.

As initially believed but is certainly not actually about Japan. In fact, using the song or its title in reference to anything Japanese is probably the greatest cliché of English Japan coverage outside of photos of a geisha talking on a cell phone.

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