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Thu, October 28, 2021 | 07:43

Hallyu exhibit to be held at V&A London

Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) of London will hold its first exhibition focusing on Korean popular culture from Sept. 24, 2022, to June 2023, according to a July 7 press release. The V&A is the world's leading museum of art, design and performance. The exhibit, titled “Hallyu! The Korean Wave,” will exhibit the rise of South Korea's popular culture since the 1990s and its d...

Lee Hae-rin | 2021-07-12 17:08

'The world as a field of data:' Exhibition shows how we live through code

In today's capitalist and industrial society, digital code consisting of 0s and 1s has largely been interpreted within the realm of technology and economy that remain behind the scenes. But although we do not witness this code directly, it defines such a large part of our daily lives through computers, smartphones, surveillance cameras and even QR code-based entry logs that r...

2021-07-12 09:02

Immersive whale and waterfall media art to appear in New York's Times Square

Two immersive, site-specific media art installations evoking natural water landscapes, produced by a'strict, will be displayed at Times Square during New York's hottest summer months. As a collaborative media art group formed by the space-based UX digital design company d'strict, a'strict made its debut last year with a visually compelling, multisensory installation wave piec...

2021-07-08 17:20

[INTERVIEW] Creative souls: Disabled artists visualize what others miss

While the faces and hairstyles of the news anchors and weathercasters who regularly fill the TV screen remain unmemorable to many, to 31-year-old Chung Jong-pil, such images have been imprinted into his memory from a young age. As an artist with a developmental disability, he reproduces his own small portraits of these media figures, with a ballpoint pen on blank white paper,...

2021-07-08 14:49

National Palace Museum exhibition sheds light on peonies in Joseon

Flowers have different meanings across cultures. Peonies have been one of the most preferred flowers here, from the Three Kingdoms period to the Joseon Dynasty, not only among ordinary people but also the royalty of the kingdoms as the flowers symbolize prosperity and glory. During royal funerals, in line with the affluence of their lifestyle, peonies were used as a pattern t...

Park Ji-won | 2021-07-07 16:09

Gov't to build new museum to exhibit late Samsung chairman's donated art collection

The government plans to build a new museum in Seoul to exhibit the late Samsung Group Chairman Lee Kun-hee's art collection, according to the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism.

Kwak Yeon-soo | 2021-07-07 15:19

'Mad Monk' Jung Kwang's art returns to Jeju Island

The Jeju Island-born Jung Kwang (1935-2002), whose birth name was Go Chang-ryul, was a man of many nicknames: “The Mad Monk,” “The Mop Monk” (or his own favorite “The Buddhist Mop”) and “The Picasso of Korea.”

2021-07-03 12:06

Selection of Korean pavilion curator for Venice Biennale embroiled in cronyism controversy

The selection of the curator of the Korean pavilion at the 59th Venice Art Biennale next year has been embroiled in a cronyism controversy, prompting the Arts Council Korea (ARKO) to make an unprecedented move to nullify its earlier decision and reevaluate all 12 applicants.

2021-07-02 08:59

Earliest Hangeul metal movable type blocks excavated in Seoul

Movable metal type (printing) blocks, which could be the earliest known depicting Hangeul, the Korean alphabet created in 1443 under the guidance of King Sejong the Great, were found in a pot during a recent archaeological excavation in Seoul, the Cultural Heritage Association (CHA) said Tuesday. They were part of 1,600 other metal type blocks, believed to have been produced ...

Park Ji-won | 2021-06-29 22:21

[INTERVIEW] Bek Hyun-jin: artist, actor and musician

The film actor playing the memorable role of an incompetent company executive who earned his position via nepotism in “Samjin Company English Class” (2020); the lead vocalist of the avant-garde pop duo, “Uhuhboo Project” and “Bahngbek;” the performance artist and painter who was selected as one of the finalists for the prestigious 2017 Korea Artist Prize at the National Museu...

2021-06-29 17:34

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