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TFAM collection pieces on display in Denmark
Three oil paintings in the Tokyo Fuji Art Museum’s collection are now on display at the ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, the oldest public art museum in Denmark. The works on loan—“The Resumption” by Rene Magritte along with “Roses” and “Metaphysical Interior with Picture of Villa” by Giorgio de Chirico—are featured as part of “The Garden—The Past” exhibition that will be held at the Danish museum until September 10 this year.
May 3, 2017
Lobby transformed into planetarium
As part of its annual Golden Week program, the Tokyo Fuji Art Museum erected an inflatable “air dome” in its first-floor lobby. Six meters in diameter, the dome served as a planetarium to entertain visitors of all ages who had come to the museum to view “Maki-e : A Kaleidoscope of the Japanese Aesthetic—Discovering by Monocle the Beauty Underlying the Beauty of Lacquer Art” during the weeklong holidays.
April 28, 2017
Museum holds press conference on new maki-e exhibition
The Tokyo Fuji Art Museum held a press conference on April 4 to introduce one of its latest exhibitions, “Maki-e : A Kaleidoscope of the Japanese Aesthetic—Discovering by Monocle the Beauty Underlying the Beauty of Lacquer Art.” The exhibition features 122 works belonging to the museum, 57 of them unveiled for the first time to the public.
April 5, 2017
Model for Warhol work visits Western painting exhibition
Michiko Hasegawa, who was a model in one of the “Woman” series portraits created by Andy Warhol, visited the Tokyo Fuji Art Museum with her husband, Tokushichi Hasegawa, the president of Galerie Nishido, Japan’s oldest galleries of Western art, based in Ginza; Mrs. Hasegawa serves as the gallery’s vice president. She had come to see her portrait for the first time in 11 years.
The work is part of “From TFAM’s Collection: One of Japan’s Largest-Ever Exhibitions of Western Paintings,” which features two works by the American icon of pop art.
TFAM holds press conference at Italian Embassy
On February 14, the Tokyo Fuji Art Museum held a press conference at the Embassy of the Italian Republic in Tokyo to announce the opening of the exhibition, “A Monumental Journey to the Far Side of the World: The Art of Renaissance Italy and the Boys of Tensho-Era Japan.” In his opening remarks, His Excellency Domenico Giorgi, Ambassador of the Italian Republic to Japan, expressed his hopes for the exhibition’s success, noting that it revolved around a groundbreaking event in history—the first-ever delegation from Japan sent to Italy and Europe in the 16th century.
“A Monumental Journey” features some 80 representative works of the Italian Renaissance at a time when four Japanese boys were dispatched to Italy and were granted an audience with Pope Gregory XIII.
TFAM Director Akira Gokita also spoke at the event, along with Hidehiro Ikegami, professor of Tokyo Zokei University’s faculty of art and design.
UK art academy CEO visits museum
On January 18, Charles Saumarez Smith, Chief Executive Officer of the Royal Academy of Arts in London visited the Tokyo Fuji Art Museum. An acclaimed British cultural historian, Mr. Smith viewed “From TFAM’s Collection: One of Japan’s Largest-Ever Exhibitions of Western Paintings,” which features Turner’s Helvoetluys—the City of Utrecht, 64, Going to Sea. The CEO’s “purpose was to see, and see if we might be able to borrow” the work, he wrote in his blog.
January 26, 2017
Hachioji elementary school students visit museum
On Friday, January 13, 110 fourth graders from Komiya Elementary School in Hachioji City toured the Tokyo Fuji Art Museum as part of their art appreciation course. The ten-year-olds viewed “From TFAM’s Collection: One of Japan’s Largest-Ever Exhibitions of Western Paintings,” which features 275 works. The museum offers tours free of charge to nearby schools as part of its community outreach initiative.
Similar tours were held for students and faculty of the Kanagawa Prefectural School for the Disabled in Tsukui on January 31, as well as for Miyakami Elementary School on February 2 and Yugichuo Elementary School two days later.
Chinese ambassador visits TFAM
On Thursday, December 1, His Excellency Cheng Yonghua, Ambassador of the People’s Republic of China to Japan, and his wife, Mrs. Wang Wan, paid a courtesy call on the Tokyo Fuji Art Museum. TFAM Board of Trustees Chair Kenji Harashima, Director Akira Gokita and other officials were on hand to greet the delegation from the Chinese Embassy in Japan, who toured the “Chinese Characters: A Legacy and Marvel Perfected Over Three Millennia” exhibition currently being shown at the museum.
Among the topics raised during their discussion were the contributions TFAM has made over the years to the promotion of amicable relations between China and Japan over the years, a history that began with museum founder Daisaku Ikeda’s friendly overtures to China from 1968 and subsequent initiatives of the museum to advance bilateral cultural exchange.
Former PM Fukuda visits museum
Former Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda visited the Tokyo Fuji Art Museum on Wednesday, November 9. TFAM Board of Trustees Chair Kenji Harashima and Director Akira Gokita were among those welcoming Mr. Fukuda, who toured the “Chinese Characters: A Legacy and Marvel Per-fected Over Three Millennia” as well as “From the Renaissance to the 20 Century—500 Years of Western Paintings” exhibitions.
The former prime minister also viewed the “Tavola Doria,” a renowned oil painting dating back to the 16th century and believed to represent the central portion of Leonardo da Vinci’s never-completed “The Battle of Anghiari.”
Museum publishes work on collection of Japanese fine art
Selected Masterpieces of Japanese Fine Art from Tokyo Fuji Art Museum Collection, a catalogue that features 657 of the most valuable works that the museum has collected over nearly four decades, was pub-lished. The catalogue includes text on the different genres of Japanese art and titles of works in Eng-lish.
October 28, 2016
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