Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota’s exhibit at the Sackler shows that shoes tell a story

First come the shoes. Packed in boxes, smelling up a museum storage room at the Smithsonian’s Arthur M. Sackler Gallery of Asian Art on the Mall.

The request was for used shoes, “something you don’t wear, but you can’t throw out.” Shoes that had some meaning, but had no further use to donors. And some had been used a lot.

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