• Tatehata Akira

    Art critic and poet. President, Tama Art University, and director, Museum of Modern Art, Saitama. Born in Kyoto. Graduated from Waseda University Faculty of Letters, Arts, and Sciences. Has been on the editorial staff of the arts magazine Geijutsu Shinchō and the faculty of Tama Art University and has served as director of the National Museum of Art, Osaka, and president of Kyoto City University of Arts. In 1993, as commissioner of the permanent Japanese pavilion at the Venice Biennale, organized Kusama Yayoi’s first solo exhibition at that venue. Author of several poetry collections, including Shigo no ressun (Posthumous Lessons), winner of the 2013 Hagiwara Sakutarō Prize.

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    Feb 16, 2017