5/26 Designing a Museum of Japanese Popular Culture

Christopher Bolton reflects on his shift from writing about Japanese popular visual culture to experimenting with visual forms of criticism. Centered on his exhibition Repro Japan (Williams College Museum of Art, 2021-22), this talk explores the challenges of presenting media like anime, manga, and cosplay in a museum setting.
Tuesday, May 26
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
66 Roessler

Christopher Bolton
Christopher Bolton is chair and Edward Dorr Griffin Professor of Comparative Literature at Williams College in Massachusetts, where he has been teaching Japanese literature and visual culture for over twenty years. In 2021-22 he curated Repro Japan: Technologies of Popular Culture, a major museum exhibition devoted to Japanese popular culture at the Williams College Museum of Art.