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Pola Museum reveals new direction—but stays true to to its large trove of Monets (opens the original)
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Few museums have reshaped their collections over the past decade as dramatically as the Pola Museum of Art in Hakone, Japan. Since 2015, the museum has quietly become one of Japan’s most active institutional buyers of international art, acquiring works by Gerhard Richter, Felix Gonzalez-Torres and Wolfgang Tillmans at a time when many museums in the country were reducing acquisitions. Now, some of those purchases underpin The New Vision: Monet and the Contemporary Gaze (until 7 April 2027), an e
Yayoi Kusama, Japanese artist who enthralled people worldwide with her polka dots and mirror rooms, has died aged 97 (opens the original)
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Yayoi Kusama, the pioneering Japanese artist whose polka dots, pumpkins and immersive Infinity Mirror Rooms made her one of the world’s most recognisable contemporary artists, has died aged 97. Kusama died on 14 August at a hospital in Tokyo from multiple organ failure, according to an announcement from the Yayoi Kusama Foundation on Thursday, 27 August. The foundation said Kusama “continued to paint until shortly before her passing, never setting aside her brush”, and “remained steadfast in her
Japan’s 400-year-old Kumamoto Castle damaged by 7.1 magnitude earthquake (opens the original)
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Kumamoto Castle, a celebrated Japanese landmark which has been undergoing restoration after devastating earthquakes in 2016, has suffered fresh damage following a magnitude 7.1 earthquake that struck the southern Kyushu island on 28 July. This week’s earthquake, which registered the maximum intensity of 7 on Japan’s seismic scale in the cities of Uki and Hikawa, has led to the deaths of 36 people as of 31 July, forced thousands to evacuate amid extreme summer heat, and caused widespread damage t
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