Originally published on metropolis.co.jp on January 2014

With its ambitious exhibitions and sky-high location, the Mori Art Museum has shaken up the Japanese art scene. Its founder, real estate mogul Minoru Mori, died last year, but it’s no surprise that his curators are looking to make a splash with their tenth anniversary show. “Andy Warhol: 15 Minutes Eternal” is being billed as the largest Warhol retrospective ever held in Japan. It’s to offer a comprehensive overview of his career via some 400 works, including paintings, silkscreens, drawings, films,  sculptures and photographs, as well as 300 personal items from what Warhol called his “Time Capsules,” boxes of ephemera he collected from his daily life, including materials related to Japan.

Feb 1-May 6, ¥500-1,500. Mori Art Museum. Open Mon & Wed-Sun 10am-10pm, Tue 10am-5pm. 6-10-1 Roppongi. Nearest stn: Roppongi. www.mori.art.museum/eng