Fuchu museum on NHK E-Tele

Fuchu Art Museum’s Nagasawa Rosetsu show is heading to national television on Sunday, April 26, with a segment on NHK E-Tele’s “Sunday Museum Art Scene.” The exhibition, “Spring Edo Painting Festival: Nagasawa Rosetsu,” opened on March 14 and runs through May 10 at the museum’s second-floor special exhibition galleries in western Tokyo. The museum lists adult admission at 800 yen, with reduced rates for students and children. The museum says curator Nobuhisa Kaneko will discuss the show in the broadcast, which is scheduled for April 26 on NHK Educational TV, widely known as E-Tele. NHK’s online timetable says program schedules can change, but it lists E-Tele programming up to a week ahead. Rosetsu was an 18th-century Kyoto painter, and the Fuchu show is billed as the first large-scale Rosetsu exhibition in Tokyo. The museum says it is also the final installment in its long-running Spring Edo Painting Festival series. The exhibition text frames Rosetsu through two currents in modern Japanese art appreciation: “kisō,” or eccentric invention, and “kawaii,” or cuteness. Fuchu highlights both his dramatic tiger imagery and his puppy paintings, including “Puppies with Chrysanthemums.” The museum says the show includes a major mid-run rehang, with a first period from March 14 to April 12 and a second from April 14 to May 10. It also posted a correction extending four works that had been slated for first-period display only into the second period as well. Fuchu has used the spring series to build a seasonal audience for Edo-period painting since the 2000s. Outside listings date the series to 2005, while the museum says it had mounted annual spring exhibitions centered on Edo painting from “Hyakka no E” in 2005 after an earlier 2001 show on Shiba Kōkan. The TV segment arrives two weeks before the exhibition closes on May 10 and one week before Kaneko is scheduled to give a 90-minute public lecture on May 3. For viewers who do not make it to Fuchu before closing, the broadcast is the museum’s broadest public window onto the show.