What do I know about Tokyo? Very little, despite, at the time of writing, it hosting the Olympic games this year. Understanding just how far in advance galleries and museums must plan ahead to secure the loan of artworks from collections across the globe, it was surely a clever and well-researched idea to synchronise the current show at Oxford Ashmolean museum, Tokyo: Art and Photography (running until the start of January next year) with one of world’s most important and high-profile sporting events. That said both had been postponed because of the Covid-19 pandemic.
I watched some of the sports coverage, and I’m sure many especially young people will have, if for no other reason than to see to see 13-year-old Sky Brown take bronze in women’s skateboarding. Impressively flying the flag for young people and sport. But there was little if any accompanying material on television or otherwise about the city in which it is
