Brooklyn Museum will present 'Art of Manga' on October 3, 2026, the first large-scale exhibition in the Americas dedicated to manga as a fine art form. Organized by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the show features over 600 original hand-drawn manga artworks (genga) by influential Japanese artists including Araki Hirohiko, Oda Eiichiro, Takahashi Rumiko, and Tagame Gengoroh, spanning foundational figures to eight contemporary masters.
The exhibition matters because it reframes manga—often dismissed as popular culture—as a serious artistic practice with sophisticated draftsmanship and formal innovation. By bringing original drawings to US audiences for the first time at this scale, it positions manga as a powerful visual storytelling medium that addresses universal themes like identity, resilience, and social justice, marking overdue institutional recognition of the form's artistic and cultural significance.