Contemporary art in a pandemic: Tokyo show tests if fans will come

Tatsuo Miyajima's 'Sea Of Time - Tohoku', featuring LED digital counters, is a 10-year project to pray for the souls of the victims of the Great East Japan Earthquake. Photo: Mori Art Museum

It's a blockbuster exhibition, featuring some of the biggest names in Japan's contemporary art scene. But will people flock to galleries in the midst of the global coronavirus pandemic?

That's the question on the mind of Mami Kataoka, director of the influential Mori Art Museum, which reopened last Friday after a five-month hiatus with one of its most high-profile Japanese art shows in years.