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Aomori, Japan's Aomori Museum of Art celebrates the work of local artists, with an enthusiastic focus on their hometown hero, Yoshitomo Nara. Now ten years after his first solo exhibit at the museum, Nara’s The Beginning Place exhibition has opened with much excitement for the world-renowned artist (born nearby in Hirosaki). The Aomori Museum of…
The Kaohsiung City Government is seeking to permanently display Taiwan-inspired painting Hazy Humid Day by Japanese artist Yoshitomo Nara at the Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung Mayor Chen Chi-mai (陳其邁) has said.
Nara, who is known for his distinctive and unsettling portraits of children, held solo exhibitions in Taipei, Kaohsiung and Tainan last year, for which he created Hazy Humid Day.
After the last of the solo exhibitions closed in February, Nara said in a General Association of Chinese Culture statement that he would be delighted if the painting could remain in Taiwan.
Nara later wrote on Twitter that he is seeking