TFAM opens Western painting exhibition in Beijing

On August 4, the exhibition, “500 Years of Western Paintings: Collection of Tokyo Fuji Art Museum” opened at the National Center for the Performing Arts in Beijing, China. Featuring some 60 works, the exhibition will run until November 12.

TFAM exhibition opens in Ishikawa prefecture

On July 28, “Masterpieces of Modern Eastern and Western Painting Exhibition” from the Tokyo Fuji Art Museum collection opened at the Ishikawa Prefectural Museum of Art. TFAM Managing Director and Senior Executive Curator Akira Gokita attended the opening ceremony. The exhibition features 59 works and run until August 27.

TFAM donates free admission tickets for Hachioji children

On July 20, Akira Kaneko, Senior Director of the Tokyo Fuji Art Museum, visited Hideshio Yasuma, Superintendent of Education for Hachioji City, to donate admission tickets to “The Birth and Flowering of an Artistic Medium: A Panoply of Prized Photographs from the TFAM Collection” exhibition. The donated tickets will be distributed without charge to elementary and junior high school students in the city.

TFAM opens photography exhibition

On July 16, the Tokyo Fuji Art Museum opened “The Birth and Flowering of an Artistic Medium: A Panoply of Prized Photographs from the TFAM Collection” exhibition. Carefully selected from the museum’s collection of some 20,000 photographs, the works on display span from the dawn of the medium to modernity.

TFAM completes major renovation project

The Tokyo Fuji Art Museum has completed a project to renovate portions of the facility’s interior and exterior, including the installation of new automated ticket dispensers and digital signages, as well as redesigning parts of its rear and side courts.

Press conference on “The Great Silk Road” exhibition’s opening

On July 5, the Tokyo Fuji Art Museum held a press conference on the opening of “The Great Silk Road World Heritage Exhibition” commemorating the 45th anniversary of the Japan-China Peace and Amity Treaty. The event took place at the Japan-China Friendship Center in Tokyo.

The exhibition features many of the Silk Road’s prized cultural assets generously on loan from the collections of art museums and research institutes throughout China. Among these are works from Dunhuang’s Mogao Caves that UNESCO has designated as a World Heritage Site.

Akira Gokita, Managing Director and Senior Executive Curator at TFAM, opened the press conference with a few words, followed by remarks from archeology expert and author Masanori Aoyagi, who serves as the exhibition’s honorary advisor. Chen Zheng, Counsellor of Cultural Section at the People’s Republic of China Embassy in Japan, also gave a welcome speech.

Following an introduction of the works the exhibition will display by Curatorial Division Director Kenichi Hirano, Gokita unveiled TFAM’s Rebranding Project, which showcases the museum’s new mission statement and logo.

TFAM representatives call on Chinese ambassador in Tokyo

On May 30, Kazuhiko Oshida, chair of Tokyo Fuji Art Museum’s Board of Trustees, Managing Director Akira Gokita and Senior Director Akira Kaneko paid a courtesy call on Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Wu Jianghao of the People’s Republic of China to Japan. They spoke on the opening of “The Great Silk Road World Heritage Exhibition: Honoring 45 Years of Peace and Amity between Japan and China” this fall in Japan, with Ambassador Wu expressing hope that the exhibition, along with other TFAM initiatives, will help promote further bilateral exchange in the future.

TFAM’s “500 Years of Western Paintings” exhibition opens in Shanghai

On April 19, the opening ceremony of the exhibition, “500 Years of Western Paintings: Collection of Tokyo Fuji Art Museum,” took place at the Powerlong Museum in Shanghai, China, with TFAM Managing Director Akira Gokita in attendance. The exhibition features some 60 works of art from the 16th-century Italian Renaissance to 20th-century Europe and will run until July 23.

TFAM managing director visits National Palace Museum in Taiwan

On March 9, Tokyo Fuji Art Museum Managing Director Akira Gokita visited the National Palace Museum in Taipei, Taiwan. He was greeted by NPM Director Hsiao Tsung-Huang and Deputy Director Yu Pei-chin. TFAM and NPM signed a memorandum of understanding in 2015, with the respective officials of the two institutions sharing ideas and insights on the possibility of reciprocal exchanges of exhibitions in the future.

Tsinghua University Art Museum delegation visits TFAM

On January 31, Kazuhiko Oshida, chair of Tokyo Fuji Art Museum’s Board of Trustees and Managing Director Akira Gokita met with a delegation from Tsinghua University Art Museum led by Dr. Du Pengfei, Deputy Executive Director of the Museum. They shared recollections of “500 Years of Western Paintings: Collection of Tokyo Fuji Art Museum,” which the Chinese art museum hosted in 2018, as well as the desire to further strengthen exchanges in the realms of art and culture between the two institutions.