Word: tsutsumi
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most ambitious and curatorially sustained exhibitions of Western modern art in Tokyo over the past few years have been presented, not by state or city or private galleries, but by a department store named Seibu in northwestern Tokyo, owned by Seiji Tsutsumi, 56. Tsutsumi's intention is "to ignore the limitations inherent in categories of genre from the art world" and "to continually create a place of expression." The Seibu museum and its offshoots in Nagano and Funabashi have mounted shows on subjects as diverse as Marcel Duchamp and Edvard Munch, Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Jasper Johns, Paul Klee...