"Since 2010, the fashion trend has been vague and diversified, and many luxury brands’ role as a vanguard of fashion trends has been under threat. Luxury brands’ core role is no longer that of simply leading the fashion trend,” said Lee Su-jin, a professor at Dongduk Women’s University. Art has been an inspiration for the luxury brands experiencing an existential crisis, as they turned to art to ...

Ahead of the two exhibitions planned in Seoul, some of Lee’s collection was unveiled at two public museums in Gwangju and Daegu on Tuesday. The Gwangju Museum of Art and Daegu Art Museum presented special exhibitions showcasing some 30 and 21 artworks, respectively, featuring works from Lee’s collection as well as the museums’ own collections. “Tickets were sold out on the opening day of the exh...

The screening for the artistic director of the Korean Pavilion in the upcoming 59th Venice Biennale will start over, after a complaint emerged over an unfair screening process. A complaint alleged a conflict of interest between an applicant and selection committee member, according to the Arts Council Korea, the commissioner of the Korean Pavilion for the International Art Exhibition of the Veni...

The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism is to share plans about the late Samsung Chairman Lee Kun-hee’s art collection, and is expected to mention the possibility of opening a new museum. The ministry announced Thursday that details on some 23,000 artworks donated by Lee’s family, will be shared next week at a briefing at the government complex in central Seoul. On April 28, President Moon ...

The museum’s “APMA, Chapter One” in February 2019 unveiled the company’s contemporary art collection while the second show “APMA, Chapter Two” in July 2020 featured the collection of antique art presenting 1,500 artworks and two-state designated treasures. The third exhibition, which will run through Aug. 22, shows significant contemporary artworks which were not presented in the first exhibition...

The participating artists include Kim Jin-hong, who expresses inner fear by drawing shadows; Chung Jong-pil, who constantly draws images of people from memory; Yoon Mi-ae, who produces collages using everyday materials such as newspapers, snack bags and milk cartons; and Cho Yu-kyung, who draws the faces of women using bright colors, including her late mother. While the exhibition shows a variet...

The Daegu Art Museum will present the exhibition “Welcome Home: A Feast of Art,” presenting 21 pieces donated by Lee. Those works include masterpieces by Korean modern artists Kim Chong-yung, Yoo Young-Kuk, Min Hak-jin and Byun Chong-ha, Lee In-sung, Lee Qoe-de, Seo Dong-jin and Seo Jin-dal. The exhibition also includes 19 additional works collected by the museum alongside Lee’s collection, shedd...

The fashion label comprising Choi Kang-hyuk and Shon Sang-lak, both graduates of Royal College of Art who studied menswear, explores mass-produced artificial objects, posing questions about sustainability. The team detaches industrial materials such as airbags, nylon and polyester from their original functional contexts and reconstitutes them as new objects through a manual labor-intensive proces...

City and Well-Being focuses on the city of Seoul. The research conducted by the Society of Architecture shows how Seoul‘s urban structure impacts city dwellers‘ lives. Photos taken in detail of the different objects that connect and communicate with people in Seoul, such as mountains, online platforms, cafes and apartments, give visitors the chance to look closely at the shapes and mechanisms of ...

The infographic on a scrap paper “Global Plastics Production by Types, 1950–2018” shows how plastics began to be produced in the 1930s and became widely used in the 1950s after World War II. According to the document, assemblages of different plastic types and plastics combined with different materials are mostly impossible to recycle. Some plastic types require 500 years to decompose. Despite th...

In a sign of growing demand for artworks, a major auction house based in Seoul saw sales from a recent bidding reach a fresh high since the 2008 global financial crisis. Seoul Auction sold artworks worth 24.3 billion won ($21.4 million) in the latest bidding held Tuesday, with 87 percent of the artworks finding new owners during the event, it said Wednesday. The amount is the highest since the ...

The 37th exhibition, “Korean Eye 2020: Creativity and Daydream” features works by emerging Korean artists, including Kim Eun-ha, Kim Helena Parada, Kang Ho-yeon, Doowon and Choi Yoon-suk, as well as K-pop stars who are also painters, such as Henry Lau and Ohnim, also known as Song Min-ho. The exhibition had a six-month run at the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg from March to August last ...

The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea’s plan to celebrate the legacy of South Korea’s pioneering video artist Paik Nam-june will be canceled again this year, with an exhibition dedicated to Paik unlikely to happen for a second year in a row, according to the museum. Earlier this year, MMCA Director Yun Bum-mo announced a “large-scale festival” would be held to shed light on P...

Banner has described the full stop as a “symbol of language without content, representing the emptiness of language, language poised on a precipice, a crisis where fonts, letters and words no longer function as couriers of meaning.” Before heading out of the gallery, visitors encounter a rearview mirror that reflects back an image of the gallery. The artist has written the words “bad review” on ...

Boyd represented his personal roots in some paintings like “Untitled (GGASOLIWPS),” which depicts his great-grandfather Harry Mossam, who was a part of the “stolen generations” of Aboriginal children in the country who were forcibly removed from their families by the government stretching from the 1890s to the 1970s. Some of his works particularly resonate in South Korea, which endured its own h...