Tokyo museum offers a video primer on Western art

The mind that’s locked down by a stay-at-home coronavirus order may yet roam online.

Looking for something to satisfy your intellectual curiosity, tame a couple of homebound students or maybe provide an enticing look at a destination in Japan you’ve been meaning to visit? Virtual tours online are in vogue this season, and Japan has several worth your time.

For one, the National Museum of Western Art in Tokyo is a world-class museum that ranks with the Musee d’Orsay in Paris, the National Gallery in London and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. They all have links on the Google Arts and Culture website.

The Tokyo museum in Ueno Park offers a video primer on western art by the curator, Shinsuke Watanabe, and associate curators that expound upon a sample of art in the museum collection. They deconstruct the methods, interpretations and themes of paintings and artifacts from Europe of the 15th to 17th centuries.

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