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...exhibitions benefit tremendously from the museum's emphasis on selective presentation. Many rooms feature only a handful of pieces, encouraging visitors to take a closer look instead of a flyby glance at 30 works in 30 seconds. "Our approach is for art appreciation, not mass exhibitionism," explains curator Yuji Dainobu...
...display, don't fret. The collection is so vast and consistently excellent that almost every piece would be on permanent show just about anywhere else. When asked if there are some "Mona Lisa-level" pieces that are so famous or significant they warrant being on display all the time, Dainobu sniffs that the museum doesn't feel the need to promote an arbitrary handful of pieces at the expense of others. Besides, he adds, with not a little pique, "There are many, many works in the collection that are 'Mona Lisa-level.'" True enough. And at last the Honkan...
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