Jimmy Onishi "Hometown" Kyoto Exhibition

Preview: written before the show opened

In 1992, as a TV-show stunt got him painting in earnest, Jimmy Onishi got advice from his hero Taro Okamoto: forget the square frame and spill off the canvas. He quit comedy and moved to Spain, and the museum says his style changed there.

The show is arranged by place, each painting hung with the episode behind it: the flyer pictures Barça (1997), Okinawa (2003) and Malta (2012). At every tour stop Onishi lives in the host city and paints it as his hometown, so you get the first showing of his new Kyoto pictures. Kyoto famously takes three generations to call anyone a local; Onishi skips straight to hometown.

It's in the fourth-floor galleries. Tickets are ¥1,500 (¥1,300 in advance until 4 December), with no timed slots, and include the second-floor galleries and Film Theatre. Open 10:00 to 18:00, Fridays to 19:30; closed Mondays except 11 January, 28 December to 4 January and 12 January. A Go Nagai show or Kyoto International Manga Museum ticket gets ¥100 off.