Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo

The Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (English, Japanese东京 都 现代 美术馆, Tokyo-to gendai Bijutsukan; German " Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo Prefecture ") is a museum of contemporary art in Kiba Park in the district of Miyoshi Tokyo district Kōtō. The museum is designed as a center of contemporary art.

Formation

The Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo Museum was planned as a continuation of the Tokyo Metropolitan Art opened in 1926, its collection of modern art was then transferred there. Already since 1963, first discrete purchases for the museum were also made ​​by Tokyo. In 1987, the leading Japanese architect Takahiko Yanagisawa was commissioned to design a suitable building. With an acquisition budget of 75 million U.S. dollars from the taxpayers Tokyo bought nearly 500 works, without attracting much attention, including 39 pieces for more than 500,000 U.S. dollars worldwide. Only the purchase of the painting girl with hair band in 1994 by Lichtenstein for the considerable price of 6 million U.S. dollars, although the value of the image was estimated to be about 1.5 to 2.5 million U.S. dollars, aroused attention in Japan and amazement.

Was considered critical the choice of location, a 15 minute walk from the station needed to reach the museum. Criticism has also been practiced since contemporary Asian art was largely ignored. The collection includes exhibits of established Western artists, such as Andy Warhol, David Hockney, Frank Stella, Kenneth Noland and Mark Rothko. The rest comes mostly from Japanese, among other things, by Yoshitomo Nara, Mariko Mori, and taro Okamoto.

On March 18, 1995, about 430 million U.S. dollar museum opened.

Exhibition

Most rooms of the museum are occupied by some 3,500 works, which are shown alternately. In the smaller permanent collection is chronological look back on over 50 years of contemporary art, starting with anti- artistic trends and pop art in the 1960s about Minimalism to the most modern contemporary works, some 100 works will be shown on a rotating basis. May include works by Gerhard Richter, Sandro Chia, Mark Rothko and Julian Schnabel.

  • Marilyn Monroe by Andy Warhol (1967 )
  • Girl with Hair Ribbon by Roy Lichtenstein ( 1965)
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