Art of Manga Opens at the Brooklyn Museum With 658 Works
The same 658 works arrive in a different building, and Brooklyn rebuilt the show around that room: the de Young's printing press becomes video and an untranslated Taniguchi story joins the hang.
Reporting from 1 source: Anime News Network.
The Art of Manga exhibition, which debuted at the de Young Museum in San Francisco last year, opens at the Brooklyn Museum with 658 works, most of them the same selection. Brooklyn curator Joan Cummins says the hard part was hanging 658 pieces in the right order in a circa 1900 room with columns and two ceiling heights. Brooklyn adds pages from Jiro Taniguchi's Hundred Year Lineage; the de Young's full-scale printing press is now a video installation.
Publishers gave the installers one rule: rival artists cannot hang next to each other. Brooklyn Museum curator Joan Cummins declined to name the pairings and said alternating male and female artists helped avoid the problem.
Museum leadership needed briefing as well. Cummins said many board members did not know what manga was or confused it with anime, and that she has read at least one volume of every series in the show.
- Rumiko Takahashi: MAO
- Jiro Taniguchi: Hundred Year Lineage pages, added for Brooklyn
- Mari Yamazaki
- Hirohiko Araki: JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Part 4
- Fumi Yoshinaga: Ooku: The Inner Chambers
- Gengoroh Tagame
- Kazumi Yamashita: Land
- Eiichiro Oda: ONE PIECE
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- Anime News Network Bringing the 'Art of Manga' to the Brooklyn Museum