Image: Ōita Prefectural Art Museum, Ōita-shi
Ōita Prefectural Art Museum has announced that its exhibition 'Love! Vanguard: A Collector's Eye for Avant-Garde' has surpassed 10,000 visitors. According to the museum, the milestone was reached today, with the first visitor to cross the threshold greeted shortly after attending a performance at the neighboring iichiko Ondo no Izumi Hall.
The museum’s notice frames the exhibition around the passion of avant-garde art lovers and collectors, presenting their role in shaping the reception and circulation of experimental art. Among the artists named in the exhibition materials are Yayoi Kusama and Haita, alongside other works selected to reflect the breadth of the avant-garde and the people who championed it.
Ōita Prefectural Art Museum, known as OPAM, is based in Ōita-shi, Japan. The institution’s announcement places the visitor count as a point of note for the current exhibition, which has drawn sustained public attention since opening. No additional programme details or final attendance figures were provided in the museum’s brief update.
The exhibition’s title, 'Love! Vanguard: A Collector's Eye for Avant-Garde', signals a focus not only on the artworks themselves but also on the collecting gaze behind them. By centring collectors as part of the story, the show situates avant-garde practice within the networks of support and taste that have helped preserve and promote such work.
The museum’s update singled out the milestone visitor in a small moment of public recognition, noting that the person had come after attending a performance at the adjacent hall. Beyond that, the announcement offered a concise snapshot of the exhibition’s current reach rather than a full report on its curatorial contents.
With the tally now past 10,000, 'Love! Vanguard: A Collector's Eye for Avant-Garde' remains one of the museum’s visible current offerings, anchored by works associated with major figures in postwar and contemporary experimental art and by the collectors who helped bring them into view.
