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Turner from the Tate: The Sublime in Dialogue with Contemporary Art

Name: Turner from the Tate: The Sublime in Dialogue with Contemporary Art
Start: 2026-10-23T15:00:00+00:00
End: 2027-02-20T15:00:00+00:00
Location: 国立西洋美術館

◇ When

October 24, 2026 – February 21, 2027

Saturday – Sunday

◈ Price

¥2,200

⌖ Where · Taito

The National Museum of Western Art

7-7 Ueno Park, Taito-ku, Tokyo

国立西洋美術館
東京都台東区上野公園7-7

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This major retrospective features over 80 works by J.M.W. Turner, one of Britain’s most celebrated painters, on loan from the Tate. The exhibition reorganizes his oil paintings and watercolors by theme, allowing visitors to experience the grandeur of nature—its shifting light, atmosphere, tempestuous seas, and skies—through Turner’s mastery of the sublime. The show also places Turner’s works alongside postwar and contemporary art, highlighting themes still relevant today. Installations include Olafur Eliasson’s pieces addressing climate change and the Otolith Group's video works on colonialism, revealing the resonance between Turner’s concerns and those of contemporary artists.