Japanese Art and Manga Curator Nicole Rousmaniere Says Manga “Deserves a Seat at All Museums” After Seeing Visitors Cry Over Original Manga Drawings

Manga is increasingly moving beyond bookstores, comic shops, and fan conventions and into major museum spaces. For Nicole Coolidge Rousmaniere, the curator behind Art of Manga, that transition is not surprising. After seeing visitors become emotional while viewing original manga drawings at San Francisco’s de Young Museum, she became even more convinced that the medium deserves recognition as fine art. The exhibition is now making its East Coast debut at the Brooklyn Museum, where Art of Manga runs from October…