"Resident registration" for statue at northeastern Japan city museum

"Resident registration" for statue at northeastern Japan city museum

Towada Mayor Yuriko Sakurada (L) and Towada Art Center head Yukiko Shikata pose in front of a 4-meter-tall statue while holding the statue's "residency card" at the museum in Towada in Aomori Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Sept. 11, 2026. The city conferred the status on Standing Woman, created by Australian modern art artist Ron Mueck, as it has been on display at the museum since its opening in 2008.

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A Cool Breeze exhibition, Ron Mueck

A Cool Breeze exhibition, Ron Mueck

A work by Ron Mueck is presented within the exhibition A Cool Breeeze exposing new possibilities of spatial depiction of a figure in contemporary art in Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech Republic, on Wednesday, April 24, 2019. (CTK Photo/Michal Krumphanzl)