Tokyo: Art and Photography

Staff | The Week | 12th August 2021

How’s this for ambition – a single exhibition covering 400 years of art from Tokyo! Despite being “ordered chaos”, the show somehow works. Tokyo’s printmakers are the star artists – the radical Hokusai, the sensitive Hiroshige. But contemporary artists – especially photographers – are also eye catching. And at least one critic sees threads of continuity across the centuries – an enduring interest not just in the “floating world” but in “modern life in all its strangeness”.