Yoshiko Mori, Former Chair of Mori Art Museum, Has Died at 85

Yoshiko Mori, Former Chair of Mori Art Museum, Has Died at 85

Yoshiko Mori, chairperson emerita of Tokyo’s Mori Art Museum, died on December 23 from pneumonia. She was 85 years old. The museum confirmed her death in a statement on Tuesday.  She and her husband, real estate developer Minoru Mori, who died in 2012, opened the museum, considered one of Japan’s top contemporary art institutions, in 2003.  “For more than two decades since then,” the museum said in a statement, “she devoted herself with great …