Interesting to hear your thoughts on the Nagoya/MFA. I've never been to Nagoya, though I'm sure there's plenty to see, this museum not least of them.
From what I heard about the Nagoya museum during my time in Boston, it confirms exactly what you were saying about it not having its own collection (though, in fact, relatively few Japanese museums do) and just serving as a space for showing the MFA's collection in Japan. While the MFA has an amazing collection of Japanese art, and I am sure that this was a motivating factor, in allowing these treasures to return to, and be seen in, Japan for a time, you are of course absolutely right that Japanese people wish to see other art too. (Perhaps too much so, imho. Too much obsession with Renaissance painting or other aspects of Western art history, not enough appreciation for their own culture. But that's just a random thought, with no real evidence to back it up.)
Are you doing the IUC summer program too, or just enjoying yourself and palling(sp?) around until the year-long program starts?
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Date: 2009-07-28 05:56 pm (UTC)From what I heard about the Nagoya museum during my time in Boston, it confirms exactly what you were saying about it not having its own collection (though, in fact, relatively few Japanese museums do) and just serving as a space for showing the MFA's collection in Japan. While the MFA has an amazing collection of Japanese art, and I am sure that this was a motivating factor, in allowing these treasures to return to, and be seen in, Japan for a time, you are of course absolutely right that Japanese people wish to see other art too. (Perhaps too much so, imho. Too much obsession with Renaissance painting or other aspects of Western art history, not enough appreciation for their own culture. But that's just a random thought, with no real evidence to back it up.)
Are you doing the IUC summer program too, or just enjoying yourself and palling(sp?) around until the year-long program starts?