Art museum, train line team up to crowdfund artistic train wrap

An art museum and a small railway line in western Japan launched Monday a crowdfunding appeal for a plan to wrap one of the line's single-carriage trains with designs taken from Western masterpieces hung at the facility to help cheer up the local area.The Ohara Museum of Art in Kurashiki, Okayama Prefecture and the Ibara Railway plan to decorate both the interiors and exteriors of one of its train cars with works by Renoir and El Greco, among other artists, which will be designed to look like stamps.The railway runs between the city of Soja in Okayama Prefecture and the city of Fukuyama in …READ FULL ARTICLE