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Thu, October 28, 2021 | 07:04

'Moonlight Crowns:' crowns for everyone

A golden, bejeweled crown in the old days was, of course, more than just a head adornment. It was a symbol of power, empowering the wearer to exert absolute influence over an entire kingdom and its people.

2021-08-12 08:54

Lee Kun-hee's art trove exhibition at NMK to be livestreamed amid rising COVID-19 cases

The late Samsung Chairman Lee Kun-hee's art trove, which recently revealed itself before the eyes of the public at the National Museum of Korea (NMK), will also be livestreamed for remote view via the Naver TV platform, Thursday at 7 p.m. (KST)

2021-08-11 17:07

Post-Dansaekhwa charcoal artist Lee Bae opens exhibition in Hong Kong

Artist Lee Bae, best known for his charcoal paintings, has a solo exhibition at the art gallery Perrotin Hong Kong. The "Paradigm of Charcoal" exhibit features a wide range of Lee's charcoal works, from the energetic "Untitled" series to the minimal "Brushstroke" series, showing how the artist explores the many hues of black that are possible through the material. Born in Che...

Kwon Mee-yoo | 2021-08-11 12:18

Park Dae-sung, master of ink-and-wash paintings with creative modern touch

One day in March, a child, seeing a 20-meter-long calligraphy work on display at ground level at Solgeo Art Museum in Gyeongju City, North Gyeongsang Province, began stepping on it, lying down and rubbing his knees against the piece. It wasn't long before damage occurred to the artwork, with some of the Chinese characters written in ink smudged and partially erased.

2021-08-09 17:15

Lush, dreamlike greenery of DMZ lights up Seoul, Tokyo and London

Korea's Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) - a 250-km-long and 4-km-wide strip dividing the two nations that has remained virtually untouched from human activity for nearly seven decades since the signing of the 1953 Korean Armistice Agreement - is a paradoxical landscape.

2021-08-08 17:07

[INTERVIEW] Korean-Danish artist explores histories of diasporic subjects through lens of Jeju shamanism

For Jane Jin Kaisen, a Jeju Island-born visual artist, who was adopted to Denmark in 1980, the island is much more than just her “ancestral land,” or a place of biographical significance. “I think Jeju sits in a very special place in modern Korean history in relation to the early Cold War and division of Korea. The Jeju April 3 Uprising and following Massacre were kind of the...

2021-08-05 09:03

NFT artworks inspired by Kansong Art Museum's cultural artifacts to be unveiled

Just two weeks ago, the Kansong Art Museum shook the art world through its unprecedented decision to put up the “Hunminjeongeum Haeryebon” - the priceless 15th-century manuscript for the Korean writing system, “Hangeul” - for sale as limited-edition NFTs (non-fungible tokens). The move has stirred up controversy over the commercialization of the country's national treasure.

2021-08-04 17:05

First-generation abstract painter Lee Joon dies at 101

Korea's first generation of abstract painters, Lee Joon, died of old age at 101 on Friday, according to The National Academy of Arts. Born in Namhae, South Gyeongsang Province in 1919, Lee went to Japan at the end of the 1930s and graduated in 1942 from the Pacific Art School, a private Western painting school attended by many Korean painters, such as Gu Bon-ung, Lee In-seong...

Park Ji-won | 2021-08-01 13:03

Traveling exhibition 'Tutankhamun' continues streak of success in Seoul

It was November 1922, when the long-buried tomb of the Egyptian pharaoh, Tutankhamun (1341-1323 BCE), in the Valley of the Kings on the west bank of the Nile revealed itself to the world once again.

2021-07-30 14:05

'My painting is like an ever-shifting cloud traveling across the sky'

Is it a raging fire devouring anything that stands in its way or a river of dancing waves? Is it a horse striding through the darkness toward freedom or ultimate doom? The brushstrokes that traverse artist Kim Gil-hu's paintings let viewers' imaginations run wild, allowing them to witness two conflicting elements simultaneously within the same pitch-black canvas: fire and wat...

2021-07-28 11:48

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