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Picasso's 'Massacre in Korea' to be exhibited for first time in S. Korea

Mar 29, 2021

Pablo Picasso's painting depicting the 1950-53 Korean War will be displayed for the first time in South Korea, an exhibition agency said Monday. The "Massacre in Korea", one of a series of anti-war ...
[Herald Interview] Installation artist Lee Seul-gi gets playful with metaphors

Mar 29, 2021

Small glass containers that she designed with craft artists are hung on the wall, holding water from rivers around the world sent by Lee’s friends. The glass containers resemble the rivers where the ...
2021 FW Seoul Fashion Week delivers hope, courage in pandemic times

Mar 29, 2021

Online runway shows featured artworks and national treasures at museums
Installation artist Lee Seul-gi wins Korea Artist Prize 2020

Mar 27, 2021

Some of Lee’s works -- such as the glass containers holding water from rivers around the world sent by the artist’s friends frustrated at being unable to meet due to the pandemic -- that hang in the ...
Witty artist Choi Suk-un turns to nature in new work

Mar 24, 2021

"For artists, it is easy to fall into mannerism. But the pandemic ironically encouraged me. If not for the pandemic, I would never have tried new things like these new paintings,” Choi said. “I am mo...
Photos of Korean artists of diaspora amid growing racism in US

Mar 23, 2021

The exhibition opened on March 17 as part of Asia Week New York 2021, an annual event that aims to promote Asian art in the city held in collaboration with top-tier Asian art specialists, major aucti...
Seoul Auction to stream live auction on Artsy’s Digital Saleroom

Mar 22, 2021

Founded in 1998, Korea’s largest auction house became the country’s first Kosdaq-listed auction house in 2008 and opened a branch office in Hong Kong in the same year. By Park Yuna ( yunapark@heral...
Andy Warhol’s works arrive at Hyundai Seoul

Mar 21, 2021

The 89,100-square-meter Hyundai Seoul opened Feb. 26 and has given retailers a boost amid suppressed consumer sentiment during the pandemic times. It features a nature-friendly theme, with almost hal...
Culture Station Seoul 284 explores 2 border towns

Mar 17, 2021

“It was therefore interesting to revisit the meaning of the ‘borderless border’ via the various artworks and to recall the imagination evoked around crossing the border, much of which has long been r...
Contemporary masters from Taiwan, China, offer hope

Mar 16, 2021

Taiwanese artist Chen Chieh-jen and Chinese artist Yue Minjun offer reflection, hope through first large-scale solo shows in Korea.
Experts urge law change to let people pay inheritance tax with art

Mar 14, 2021

Demands to revise tax law to accept artworks as means of paying inheritance taxes have increased in past few months
Moon Kyung-won and Jeon Joon-ho selected for MMCA Hyundai Motor Series 2021

Mar 10, 2021

The 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, museums

Mar 9, 2021

Actor 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 desires

Mar 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 Seoul

Mar 6, 2021

Lee’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...