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Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art

Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art (MIMOCA) opened in Marugame, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan, in 1991. Architect Yoshio Taniguchi designed the museum building. The museum collection comprises some twenty thousand works donated by artist Gen’ichirō Inokuma. Special exhibitions of works by other contemporary artists are also staged.

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1991

Marugame, Marugame, Japan

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Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art in Marugame, Japan

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Yoshio Taniguchi

1937-2024 · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

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Yoshio Taniguchi was a Japanese architect best known for his redesign of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, which was reopened on 20 November 2004. Critics have emphasized Taniguchi's fusion of traditional Japanese and Modernist aesthetics. Martin Filler, writing in The New York Times, praised "the luminous ph…

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Yoshio Taniguchi and Associates

practice · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

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