By Ines Min
September is facing no dearth of substance for art aficionados across the country. With the 8th Gwangju Biennale accelerating to speed for what looks like two months of somber, enlightening review of images and the Busan Biennale raising the bar for domestic artists, Media City Seoul is finding its own niche and reputation for the international artistic crowd uncertain of that destination ``Korea.’’ Namely, that it’s pretty hip.
The sixth Media City Seoul event, which this year shed the somewhat pigeonholing term ``biennale,’’ opens today to offer four locations and 46 artists of some of the most innovative, astounding and ― flat-out ― fun artwork found within the city. Hosted at the Seoul Museum of Art (SeMA), the Gyeonghui Palace Annex, the Seoul Museum of History and the Simpson Memorial Hall at Ewha Girls’ High School, the ambitious event will run through Nov. 17.