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Former Arts Agency Head to run National Art Centre
At a recent press conference it was announced that Hideki Hayashida, a bureaucrat in the national government who in the late 1990s headed up the Agency for Cultural Affairs before moving to the Imperial Household Agency, will be the first director of Japan's fifth national art facility, the National Art Center, Tokyo. It was also announced that the Center, which will not have a collection, will open to the public on 20 January next year. The majority of the Kisho Kurokawa-designed museum, which has a total of 14,000 square metres of exhibition space, will be used by Japan's hundreds of private artist associations for their annual members-only exhibitions. Blockbuster shows will also be organized in collaboration with newspaper companies, the first of which will be an exhibition of work from the Pompidou Centre made in tandem with the Asahi Shimbun. It is due to start on 7 February. The museum has a staff of eight curators, who will also generate a small number of exhibitions each year. The opening show, which starts on 20 January, will be one of these. Featuring over 500 works, and sprawling over 6,000 square metres, this ambitious exhibition will present an overview of art from the 20th century looking in particular at how the age of mass production, and the consequent surfeit of "objects," has influenced artistic creation. Content taken from 'Japanese Art Scene Monitor'. To subscribe, go to http://www.jasm.australia.or.jp/subscribe
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