"It was just today that I learned that the name of the popular artistic medium manga is Japanese for "pictures run riot." And I learned this upon discovering that the de Young Museum in Golden Gate Park is opening a manga-specific exhibit Saturday called Art of Manga, which they're billing as the first large-scale exhibition in the Americas to explore manga as an art form."
""What's interesting is that manga that's read in America and manga that's read in Japan is read in Saudi Arabia, is read in Indonesia, is in Malaysia, the same titles are popular throughout the world," curator Nicole Rousmaniere told the station. "You have manga that is aimed towards a female market, you have manga that's aimed towards a male market. There are different stylistic things. Not surprisingly, Saturday's opening (9:30 am - 4:30 pm) has been declared a Cosplay Day for attendees."
The de Young Museum in Golden Gate Park opens Art of Manga, the first large-scale manga exhibition in the Americas. The show presents more than 600 drawings and works by ten influential manga artists, including Araki Hirohiko, across art, comic book, and animated media. The exhibition traces manga's roots to Japanese painting, 18th- and 19th-century woodblock prints, Western comics, and satire. The Fine Arts Museums' historical Japanese prints collection underpins the presentation and positions the institution as the first North American museum to spotlight contemporary manga in a major exhibition. The opening day is designated Cosplay Day (9:30 am–4:30 pm).
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