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The Chichu Art Museum (地中美術館, Chichū Bijutsukan) (literally 'art museum in the earth') is a museum built directly into a southern portion of the island of Naoshima in Kagawa Prefecture, Japan. It was designed by architect Tadao Ando and opened to the public on July 18, 2004.
The Naoshima Contemporary Art Museum (now Benesse House), was established in 1992 to exhibit works from Fukutake's collection, followed by the Chichu Museum in 2004, which features site-specific installations by Walter de Maria and James Turrell, as well as four works from Claude Monet's Water Lilies series.
The Town of Naoshima (直島町, Naoshima-chō) administers Naoshima and 26 smaller islands nearby. [1] As of 2020, the town has an estimated population of 3,026 [2] and a density of 210 persons per km 2. The total area is 14.22 km 2. [3] Naoshima Island is known for its many contemporary art museums.
The Inujima Art Project (犬島アートプロジェクト) is a rehabilitation project covering the entire island by the Naoshima Fukutake Art Museum Foundation, a project of Benesse Corporation. It opened to the public in April 2008.
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan: 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan Open Sky [29] 2004: Chichu Art Museum, Naoshima, Japan: Chichu Art Museum, Naoshima, Japan Three Gems [30] 2005: de Young Museum, San Francisco, California, United States: de Young Museum, San Francisco, California, United States
In 2005, Japan Society, New York, and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Washington, organized a US and Canadian tour of "Hiroshi Sugimoto: History of History", an exhibition of artifacts that Sugimoto has collected over the years, particularly from East Asia and Japan, curated by the artist himself (travelled to the Kanazawa 21st Century Museum of ...
Police box outside Chofu Station in Tokyo (1993–94) Sumida Hokusai Museum.Tokyo, Japan(2016) Kazuyo Sejima ( 妹島 和世 , Sejima Kazuyo , born 29 October 1956) is a Japanese architect and director of her own firm, Kazuyo Sejima & Associates.
Teshima Agricultural fields on Teshima Teshima Art Museum. Teshima (豊島) is an island located in the inland sea of Japan, between Naoshima and Shōdoshima islands, and is part of Kagawa Prefecture. It has an area of 14.5 square kilometres (5.6 square miles) and a population of about 1,000 people.