Tokyo Museum of Contemporary Art
The Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo ( English Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo ; Japanese 東京 都 現代 美術館 Tōkyō-to Gendai Bijutsukan , German 'Museum of Contemporary Art of Tokyo Prefecture' ) is a museum of contemporary art in Kiba Park in the Miyoshi district Kōtō District of Tokyo . The museum is designed as a center of contemporary art.
Emergence
The museum was planned as a continuation of the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum , which opened in 1926, and whose modern art collection was then transferred there. Tokyo has also made its first discreet purchases for the museum since 1963. In 1987, the leading Japanese architect Takahiko Yanagisawa was commissioned to design a suitable building. With a $ 75 million purchase budget from taxpayers' money, Tokyo bought nearly 500 works worldwide without attracting much attention, including 39 pieces for more than $ 500,000. It was not until Lichtenstein's purchase of the Girl with a Hair Band in 1994 for the sizeable price of US $ 6 million, although the painting was valued at around US $ 1.5 to 2.5 million, that aroused attention and astonishment in Japan .
The choice of the location was viewed critically; it takes about 15 minutes to walk from the train station to the museum. Criticism was also leveled as contemporary Asian art was largely ignored. The collection includes exhibits from established Western artists such as Andy Warhol , David Hockney , Frank Stella , Kenneth Noland and Mark Rothko . Most of the rest comes from Japanese, including Yoshitomo Nara , Mariko Mori , and Tarō Okamoto .
The museum, which cost about 430 million US dollars, opened on March 18, 1995.
exhibition
Most of the rooms in the museum are occupied by around 3500 works that are shown alternately. The smaller permanent collection looks back chronologically to over 50 years of contemporary art, starting with anti-artistic tendencies and pop art in the 1960s through minimalism to the most modern contemporary works, around 100 works are shown on a rotating basis. Works by Gerhard Richter , Sandro Chia , Mark Rothko and Julian Schnabel can be included .
Well-known exhibits
- Marilyn Monroe by Andy Warhol (1967)
- Girl with Hair Ribbon by Roy Lichtenstein (1965)
literature
- Dart Gallery . Tokyo's New Museum. In: Asiaweek . tape 21 , no. 1-13 , 1995 (English).
Web links
- Museum website (Japanese, English, Chinese, Korean)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tobikan website (Japanese) ( Memento of the original from April 3, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Andrew Decker: The $ 6-million girl . In: New York . tape 27 , no. 44 , November 7, 1994, pp. 23 (English, books.google.de ).
- ^ Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo. In: mtrip.me. mTrip travel guide, accessed February 18, 2012 .
- ^ Review of Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo. In: frommers.com. Frommer's, accessed February 18, 2012 .
Coordinates: 35 ° 40 ′ 48 ″ N , 139 ° 48 ′ 29 ″ E