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Friday 27-Jul-2007 - Sunday 04-Apr-2010

This display traces the development of Buddhist statues from Gandhara (Ancient India), China, the Korean Peninsula, and Japan to provide insights about how Buddhist beliefs and statues developed in each region.

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  Art Categories:

  Fine arts

  Art Medium:

  Sculpture

  Art Period:

  Classic (800BC-337), Middle Ages (373-1453)

• Venue Profile ›

  Venue Type:

  Museum, Public gallery

  Venue Description:

  The Tokyo National Museum collects, houses, and displays a collection of art works and antiquities from Japan as well as other Asian countries. The museum also conducts research and investigations concerning its collection of books, rubbings, and photographs, related to fine art.

  Venue Category:

  Fine arts

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  Website

  http://www.tnm.go.jp

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  Opening: The Birth of Chinese Civilisation

   

  From Tuesday 6, Tokyo National Museum, Tokyo ...

   

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  Published 03-Jul-10
  Source: www.theartnewspaper.com

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  Haniwa Horse could become 'a new icon' of LACMA's Japanese art collection

   

  Robert Singer can still remember how he felt when he first laid eyes on the Haniwa Horse in a Kyoto gallery two years ago. "The size. The elegance. I had never seen anything like it," says Singer, the curator of Japanese art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. "It was a no-brainer. I told them, 'Ship him over and we'll fund-raise for him.' " True to his word, Singer and the museum secured the necessary financing. On Thursday, the 6th century terra cotta hors...

   

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  Published 16-Jun-10
  Source: feeds.latimes.com

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  Japanese Museums Dominates Art Newspaper Exhibition Ranking

   

  LONDON (REUTERS).- Japanese museums dominated a new table of the world's top art exhibitions in 2009, according to a survey in The Art Newspaper. Ranked by daily entries as opposed to overall visitors, Tokyo National Museum's "Ashura" exhibition, featuring one of the nation's most famous Buddhist statues and other treasures from the Kohfukuji temple, topped the list. It attracted 15,960 people per day, and 946,172 overall, ahead of Nara National Museum's "61st Annual Exhibition of Sh...

   

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  Published 02-Apr-10
  Source: feedproxy.google.com

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  Tokyo National Museum exhibitions top "most visited" chart

   

  The Tokyo National Museum has taken the first and third position in a chart of the most visited international museum shows, as compiled by The Art Newspaper. Ashura and Masterpieces from Kohfukuji and Treasures of the Imperial Collections got an average of 15,960 and 9,473 visitors a day of their respective openings. Banksy vs Bristol Museum at The Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery was the UK's most visited show with 3,859 average daily visitors and 6,186 people visited Pipilotti Rist's Pour Y...

   

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  Published 01-Apr-10
  Source: www.artreview.com

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