Turner: Painting the Sublime, in Dialogue with Contemporary Art
The National Museum of Western Art · Special Exhibition Galleries · Tokyo · –
More than 80 works from Tate place Turner's paintings of the sublime in dialogue with contemporary artists including Olafur Eliasson and the Otolith Group, among them The Fall of an Avalanche in the Grisons and Hurrah! for the Whaler Erebus! After Tokyo, the exhibition travels to the Nakanoshima Museum of Art, Osaka.
Exhibition information
Plan your visit
- Opening hours
- 09:30–17:30 Until 20:00 on Fridays and Saturdays; last admission 30 minutes before closing.
- Closed
- Mondays (open Nov 23 and Jan 11), plus Nov 24, Dec 28–Jan 1, and Jan 12.
- Closed during the exhibition
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- Admission
- Adult ¥2,400
- University student ¥1,500
- High-school student ¥1,100
- Reservation
- No reservation required. Advance tickets (JPY 2,200 for adults) and an adult pair ticket (JPY 4,200 for two, sold through Dec 20 and valid through Jan 11) are also available. Free for junior-high students and younger, and for disability-certificate holders with one companion.
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