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Moon Kyung-won and Jeon Joon-ho selected for MMCA Hyundai Motor Series 2021Mar 10, 2021The artist duo’s exhibition will be held at MMCA Seoul in September with a theme of “News From Nowhere: Freedom Village” which will feature a variety of art shedding light on Daeseong-dong, which is ... -
Seoul Fashion Week runways to expand to Korea's landmarks, museumsMar 9, 2021Actor Bae Doona has been appointed as the ambassador of the upcoming fashion week. Videos promoting Seoul Fashion Week featuring Bae will be presented at Times Square in New York. The opening ceremo... -
Artist Kim Sung-ho presents contemporary ‘chaekgeori’ depicting desiresMar 8, 2021“I agreed with many points in the book. The author’s perspectives on the contemporary era about human desires and the prevailing tendency to return to nationalism around the globe, for example.” Kim ... -
Lee Bul’s early ‘soft sculptures,’ performances presented in SeoulMar 6, 2021Lee’s eye catching shows did not always go smoothly. In her showcase of “Majestic Splendor” in 1991 in Seoul, which was a display of 63 garishly decorated raw fish in refrigerated glass cases, was in... -
Exhibition of Jamunbak artists kicks off in central SeoulMar 5, 2021By Park Yuna ( yunapark@heraldcorp.com ) -
Ryu Sung-sil wins 19th Hermes Foundation MissulsangMar 3, 2021After graduating from Seoul National University, where she majored in sculpture, in 2018 and earning a master’s degree in 2021 at the same university, Ryu has been exploring a variety of art from scu... -
MMCA to host Korean avant-garde artist Lee Seung-taek’s academic seminar onlineMar 2, 2021The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea will host an online academic seminar to explore the work of avant-garde artist Lee Seung-taek, as part of a special session associated with t... -
First Mapplethorpe show in Korea highlights iconic status of US photographerMar 1, 2021When the artist opened the traveling exhibition “The Perfect Moment” in 1988, just months before his death, it provoked national controversy regarding artistic freedom, censorship and museums’ role a... -
Korea’s oldest art fair to kick off in March with 3,000 worksFeb 28, 2021Founded in 1976, the Galleries of Association Korea is a group of more than 160 galleries in the country. It aims to popularize the art industry and foster a sound art market in Korea. Hwang Dal-seun... -
Upcoming Gwangju Biennale gains relevance in pandemic timesFeb 27, 2021The biennale was scheduled for Feb. 26 but postponed as the pandemic continued to ravage the country, and the exhibition period was scaled down to 39 days -- from April to May 9 -- from 73 days. It w... -
Seoul Fashion Week to run virtually in MarchFeb 22, 2021The Seoul Fashion Week is embarking on a digital fashion event for the 2021 fall-winter season with 45 fashion brands participating, after a similar online event for the spring-summer season in Octob... -
Painter Yun Suk-nam calls out to souls of forgotten female activistsFeb 20, 2021The works, which feature women with big and clumpy hands, were intentional, the artist said. “I think one’s hands represent the subjects. I like the power that the hands contain in the paintings,” s... -
Joseon-era folding screen with hunting scenes goes on displayFeb 20, 2021The paintings portray excellent expression of landscape, well-organized composition, and vivid depiction of human figures and animals. The first and second panels feature landscapes with an autumnal... -
Chilean artist Cecilia Vicuna hosts first solo exhibition in AsiaFeb 19, 2021The quipu, which is an Andean method of visual-tactile communication and recordkeeping system involving the knotting of colored strings, becomes a conceptual and performative poem in the space as an ... -
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[Feature] How artists, writers inspire one anotherFeb 15, 2021MMCA exhibitions highlight intersection of Korean literature, art in ’30s and ’40s
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