On October 22, the opening ceremony of “400 Years of European Paintings: Masterpieces from the Tokyo Fuji Art Museum” exhibition was held at the Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts. The exhibition is being cosponsored by the Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts and local Shimotsuke Shimbun newspaper. TFAM Director Akira Gokita and Executive Director Akira Kaneko attended the ceremony, where Tochigi Prefectural Governor Tomikazu Fukuda and Shimotsuke Shimbun Representative Director Takuya Kishimoto gave keynote speeches.
“400 Years of European Paintings” features some of Europe’s finest works spanning the Renaissance to the modern era. The exhibition will run from October 23 to December 26.
