Tours
Special Exhibitions Tour
Takeda Hideo’s Genpei: Defying Authority
Meet at the Information Desk
September 3, 2026 6–7 p.m.
September 6, 2026 3–4 p.m.
September 10, 2026 6–7 p.m.
September 13, 2026 3–4 p.m.
September 17, 2026 6–7 p.m.
September 20, 2026 3–4 p.m.
September 24, 2026 6–7 p.m.
September 27, 2026 3–4 p.m.
Explore the special exhibition on a one-hour guided tour.
Learn about the contemporary Japanese artist Takeda Hideo’s bold and graphic style through some of his best-known works. Genpei, a series of twenty-two screenprints, radically reimagines the Genpei civil war (1180–85) between two rival clans in Japan. The exhibition re-situates Takeda’s series within his career as a satirical cartoonist and in relation to a broader tendency to challenge outdated stereotypes and hypocritical values amid a wave of social and political upheaval in late twentieth-century Japan.
