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Thu, August 5, 2021 | 20:49

'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.”

Arts | 2021-07-03 12:06

Yun Ko-eun's 'The Disaster Tourist' wins UK's crime fiction award

Best-selling author Yun Ko-eun's novel, “The Disaster Tourist,” became the first Korean literary piece to win the prestigious crime fiction award in the UK, Thursday, local time. The eco-thriller, translated into English last year through sponsorship of the Literature Translation Institute of Korea (LTI Korea), was named the winner of the Crime Fiction in Translation Dagger c...

Books | 2021-07-02 16:09

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.

Arts | 2021-07-02 08:59

[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...

Arts | 2021-06-29 17:34

Korea's largest int'l art fair to kick off in fall before partnering with Frieze

KIAF Art Seoul, the largest international art fair here since 2002, will be held at COEX in southern Seoul and also online this fall before launching a partnership with the prominent global fair Frieze starting next year.

Arts | 2021-06-28 09:01

Exhibitions explore idea of 'sustainable museum'

After opening its doors to the public early last month, the Museum of Contemporary Art Busan (MOCA Busan) is holding an exhibition called, "Sustainable Museum: Art and Environment," which addresses head-on the complex relationship between staging art exhibitions and the unseen environmental impact of such events.

Arts | 2021-06-23 13:45

Revisiting Treasure Island: Aboriginal artist challenges Euro-centric narratives in Australia

The 1883 adventure novel, “Treasure Island,” the 1928 Great Barrier Reef expedition in Australia and the 1962 film, “Mutiny on the Bounty.” What do these seemingly disparate fictional works and historical events have in common? For Sydney-based artist Daniel Boyd, these elements represent the Euro-centric and imperialist ideals that have shaped dominant historical discourses ...

Arts | 2021-06-22 09:57

Invisible, ever-changing life force 'qi' captured in Lee Kang-so's paintings

To the 78-year-old contemporary master Lee Kang-so, the world is not immutable and self-explanatory, but is rather ever-shifting and pulsating, with visible as well as invisible forces at work. This alternative perspective of our surroundings is masterfully depicted in his free-spirited brushstrokes that the artist says is the visualization of “qi,” or life force and flow of ...

Arts | 2021-06-19 09:43

Korea's auction houses gear up for major modern art sales amid rising public interest

Amid the recent boom in local art fairs and the surge in public interest in art auctions - fueled partially by the news of late Samsung Chairman Lee Kun-hee's massive art donation - Korea's key auction houses are gearing up for the last major art sales of the first half of the year, next week.

Arts | 2021-06-18 09:16

Book review: Community, collaboration between poets, artists forged during dark colonial times

The fact that the golden age of Korea's modern literature and art occurred during the early 20th century may seem like an ironic twist to many. How was it that the bleak times of Japanese colonial rule formed the backdrop to a cultural flourishing of lively, communal interactions among artists and poets?

Books | 2021-06-16 16:59

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