The Playful Antiquarian

Tea drinking vs. Impressionism

June 17th, 2003

According to this article from The Art Newspaper, the Boston/Nagoya Museum of Fine Arts is having major troubles. The museum, a collaboration with Boston’s MFA, has been in existence only four years but its history has been plagued with financial woes and in-fighting. Apparently, some of the ill will between the curatorial staff and the adminstration has been over exhibition choices (which have been “too academic to interest the general audience,” according to the museum’s director-general Fumio Suzuki).

Personally, I would rather see an exhibit about tea drinking in the West (one exhibit that did poorly) than one about Impressionism. But, then again, I am not Japanese and I do not live in Nagoya. Read the full article here.

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