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Mori Art Museum Tokyo 2003 |
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Like all the other rich and wealthy Mr. Mori has to show that he's more than money. So he installed his own art museum on top of his billion bucks worth Mori tower. Recently opened on October 18th. Private art museums are quite common in Tokyo, an environment which often lacks public funding, so Mori Art Museum has to prove it's really "on the top". By appointing David Elliot, former Moderna Museet Stockholm, as the first non-japanese director, and having managers from Museum of Modern Art and Tate Gallery sitting in the board, the museum underlines its ambition to play in the very first league worldwide. Critics however have pointed out that the museum is merely an appendix to a shopping mall ("an ornament in an over-designed retail-entertainment complex"), without real independance from it's owners and main sponsors, the Mori Building Group. |
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Article in German available at Thing Blog Das Mori Art Museum See also Roppongi Hills page Mori Art Museum Website |
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