Director of Mori Art Museum to retire
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Art news daily 19 SEPTEMBER 2019
Fumio Nanjo in 2007. Photo: Joi Ito/Flickr
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Director of Mori Art Museum to retire | The Mori Art Museum in Tokyo has announced that its director Fumio Nanjo, who has held the post since 2006, will retire at the end of this year. Major exhibitions held at the museum under his leadership include ‘Japan in Architecture: Genealogies of Its Transformation’ (2018). He will be succeeded on 1 January 2020 by Mami Kataoka, who has served as chief curator since the opening of the museum in 2003; Kataoka was also the artistic director of the Sydney Biennale in 2018.
