Fantastic \u201cThe New Vision: Monet and the Contemporary Gaze\u201c exhibition that features the largest Monet collection in Asia, paired with motif-matching works and installations from contemporary artists like Omori Hinako, Su-Mei Tse, Th\u1ea3o Nguy\u00ean Phan, Nakaya Fujiko, Wolfgang Tillmanns, and many others. <\/p>\n
And while you’re there, there\u2019s also the Cezanne collection \u201cCezanne Legend\u201d that pairs his works with works by Renoir, van Gogh, Gaugin, Braque, Matisse, Bonnard, and Picasso. (The museum has a good explanation why it returns to the original Proven\u00e7al spelling of Cezanne\u2019s name, which I appreciate and follow from now on too.)<\/p>\n
And the museum building, created by Nikken Sekkei and integrated into the Fuji-Hakone-Izu National Park, is also terrific in itself, complete with a \u201cPola Museum of Art Nature Trail.\u201d <\/p>\n
But beware, it\u2019s not easy to get there\u2014I went to Hakone early in the morning with a friend who had to attend to some business, and from there it took me a full hour with two different rural bus lines to get to the museum. (Of course, you can go the entire way by car, but you get an idea how far out it is.) Luckily, my friend picked me up at the museum in the afternoon, right before the typhoon came back from its lunch break!<\/p>\n
But yeah, it\u2019s gorgeous, and absolutely worth the trip.<\/p>\n
\ud83d\uddbc\ufe0f Some museums are easier to get to than others.<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-archive","h-entry","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7483"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7510,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7483\/revisions\/7510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\u201cThe New Vision: Monet and the Contemporary Gaze\u201d and \u201cCezanne Legend\u201d<\/a>, June 26, 2026
\nPola Museum of Art | Fuji-Hakone-Izu National Park, Japan<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"