Wednesday 19 October 2005
6:00pm – 8:00pm
International Dimensions in Funding for the Arts: the UK and Japan
Daiwa Foundation Japan House
Organised by the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation
Effectively facilitating international collaboration and exchange in the arts is but one of the many challenges facing policy makers and funding bodies, both in the UK and Japan. In examining the experience of museums in both countries, this seminar considered the role of government and business in supporting the arts and looked particularly to the involvement of Japanese newspapers, like the Asahi Shimbun, in sponsoring international exhibitions, both at home and abroad. Since 2004, the Asahi Shimbun has undertaken two major sponsorship collaborations with the British Museum: the creation of the new Asahi Shimbun Gallery; and the successful touring exhibition inJapan, Treasures from the World’s Cultures: The British Museum after 250 Years, which commemorated the newspaper’s 125th anniversary.
Organised in association with The Japan Society.
About the contributors
Timothy Clark
Timothy Clark is Head of the Japanese Section in the Department of Asia at the British Museum. His publications include Ukiyo-e Paintings in the British Museum (1992), Demon of Painting: The Art of Kawanabe Kyosai (1993), The Actor’s Image: Ukiyo-e Prints of the Katsukawa School in the Clarence Buckingham Collection (with Ueda Osamu, 1994), The Passionate Art of Kitagawa Utamaro (with Asano Shugo, 1995), One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji (2001) and The Dawn of the Floating World: Early Ukiyo-e Treasures from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1650–1765 (with Louise E Virgin, Anne Nishimura Morse and Allen Hockley, 2001). His current interests are the Maruyama-Shijo school, and the development of the art market and exhibitions in pre-modern Kyoto.
Hidetoshi Sotooka
Hidetoshi Sotooka is General Chief in Europe of the Asahi Shimbun. He joined the newspaper in 1977 and since then he has served as City Desk Correspondent, New York Bureau Correspondent (1989-93), and Editorial Writer (1995-97). He specializes in Japanese security control and has served as Senior Staff Writer on security control since 1999. His publications include The United Nations: A New Era for the UN, A Portrait of USA and Earthquake and Society.
David Barrie
David Barrie (chair) is Director of the Art Fund (formerly the National Art Collections Fund). He entered the Diplomatic Service in 1975 and served in various posts in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and Cabinet Office. In 1989, he was seconded to become Executive Director of the Japan Festival 1991. An expert on Ruskin, his publications include an abridged edition of John Ruskin’s Modern Painters. He is a Trustee of the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA), the Campaign for Museums, the Ruskin Foundation, and Butterfly Conservation. He is also a member of the MLA’s Acceptance-in-Lieu Panel.