""The vision has always been the same. I built [AWT] as a hybrid platform to connect institutions, galleries, and diverse audiences,""
""AWT is not just a market platform. We'd love to have more art professionals from outside Japan attend as much as we'd like to see more collec""
""sleeping beauty""
Art Week Tokyo's fifth edition (5–9 November) brought commercial galleries and museums across Tokyo into focus and highlighted momentum within the national art scene. Sanae Takaichi became Japan's first female prime minister, prompting mixed responses and calls for tax incentives, international promotion programmes, improved cultural infrastructure, and stronger public collections to support artists, collectors, and galleries. The Japanese art market collapsed in 1990 and other centres subsequently grew, leaving Japan described as a "sleeping beauty." AWT operated as a hybrid post-art fair with 52 participating institutions, free shuttles, and an explicit mission to activate the market.
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