Taro Igarashi | Architectural Stroll 13──Going to an Art Museum in Seoul from Japan
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Taro Igarashi visits Seoul museums, noting low fees and youthful crowds, to reflect on East Asia's art scene and Japan's cultural standing.Summary
Taro Igarashi recounts his weekend trip to Seoul, where he visited the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art’s Damien Hirst retrospective, the Samsung Museum of Art (Leeum), the Gwacheon branch’s “Road Movie” exhibition, and the newly opened Pompidou Centre–Hanfa. He highlights the remarkably low admission fees—around 840 yen for the Hirst show—and notes the resulting influx of young visitors, contrasting this with rising museum costs in Japan. Through these observations, Igarashi reflects on the current state of the East Asian art scene, the increasing tendency of major exhibitions to bypass Tokyo, and questions whether Japan’s cultural engagement with foreign art is weakening.
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