The Hara Museum of Contemporary Art (原美術館, Hara Bijutsukan) was one of the oldest contemporary art museums in Japan.[1] The museum was in the Kita-Shinagawa district, in the Shinagawa area of Tokyo.
The building was originally built as a private mansion designed by Jin Watanabe in 1938 for the grandfather of current museum president and international collector Toshio Hara.[2][3] Designed in a Bauhaus style, it is a rare example of early Shōwa period architecture .[2] Following the war, it was used by the US and then served as the Embassy of the Philippines and the Embassy of Sri Lanka.[2] In 1979, it was converted to a museum. It underwent a major renovation in 2008, including a new lighting system designed by Shozo Toyohisa.[1] In November 2018, the Foundation Arc-en-Ciel announced that it would be closing the Shinagawa museum in 2020, leaving the Hara Museum ARC in Gunma Prefecture as the foundation's only museum.[4]
The Shinagawa museum was actually closed on January 11, 2021.[5]
Its permanent collection had included works by Karel Appel, Alexander Calder, Buckminster Fuller, Yves Klein, Yayoi Kusama, Surasi Kusolwong, Aiko Miyawaki, Yasumasa Morimura, Daisuke Nakayama, Maruyama Ōkyo, Jackson Pollock, Jean-Pierre Raynaud, George Rickey, Mark Rothko, Cindy Sherman, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Jason Teraoka, Zhou Tiehai, Lee U-Fan, Andy Warhol, and Miwa Yanagi.[1]
Its street address was: 4-7-25 Kita-Shinagawa, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 140-0001, Japan.
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- ^ a b c "Museum press release 2011" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-04-25. Retrieved 2011-10-13.
- ^ a b c "Hara Museum of Contemporary Art". japan-experience.com. 29 January 2015. Retrieved 12 March 2017.
- ^ "Spontaneous Encounters & Permanent Installations - An interview with Toshio Hara & Yoko Uchida". artspacetokyo.com. Retrieved 12 March 2017.
- ^ "Notification regarding the Closing of the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art (Shinagawa, Tokyo) at the end of December 2020". ART.iT. November 22, 2018. Retrieved December 6, 2018.
- ^ "原美術館が東京での活動を終了。「原美術館ARC」へ引き継がれる理念とは" (in Japanese). Yahoo! Japan. 2021-01-11. Retrieved 2021-03-21.
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