2006’s Most-Popular Museum Shows

The Art Newspaper’s annual list. “For the third year, exhibitions in Tokyo top the list. The show with the highest daily attendance last year was “The Price Collection: Jakuchu and the Age of Imagination” at the Tokyo National Museum in its enormous Heisei wing. It had 6,446 daily visitors: huge, although not as high as the 9,436 the museum averaged in 2005 for its “Hokusai” show. The second most visited show was also in Tokyo, “Leonard Foujita” at the National Museum of Modern Art (6,324 a day).”