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Exhibition looks at overarching presence of virtual reality

Dec 15, 2019

In a video introducing Niantic’s mobile game Pokemon Go, which uses augmented reality, Pikachu is running around in an open-air cafe, past real people. The uplifting yellow creature even plays hide-a...
MMCA exhibition highlights Korean video artists, Paik Nam-june and beyond

Dec 11, 2019

Paik Nam-june is inarguably the foremost video artist in South Korea. But who else can we talk about when it comes to video art, and what are the distinctive characteristics that other Korean video a...
Wael Shawky reconstructs Arab history through art

Dec 8, 2019

Imagine a Middle Eastern man walking bare feet on the streets of Mecca in the 1970s, who soon takes out his keys and drives away in a Cadillac. This interesting juxtaposition of a Bedouin city and th...
Exhibition brings Middle East closer to Korea

Dec 5, 2019

Wael Shawky introduces works that deal with the Crusades. “The Horror Show File” (2010) at SeMA is the first of Shawky’s marionette-film trilogy “Cabaret Crusades,” the artist’s historical examinatio...
Exhibit takes place around discarded power plant

Dec 4, 2019

An exhibit is underway at an outdoor space near retired thermal power plants in Mapo-gu, Seoul, which await to be transformed into a cultural complex. The event, titled “Kraftwerk 2019: Homo Symbiou...
US video art pioneer’s show opens in Korea

Dec 2, 2019

Suwon IPark Museum of Art is holding a solo exhibition dedicated to Gary Hill, a US-based artist considered one of the pioneers of video art, titled “Gary Hill: Momentombs.” The exhibition in Suwon,...
Rhii Jew-yo wins MMCA Korea Artist Prize 2019

Nov 29, 2019

Rhii Jew-yo was announced the winner of the Korea Artist Prize 2019 Thursday evening. Rhii was one of four finalists for the prize, organized by the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, K...
[Eye Plus] Beauty of silver threads

Nov 29, 2019

Ipsa is the traditional Korean art of inlaying thin threads of silver or gold onto harder surfaces such as iron to create exquisite decorative patterns or images. The craft reached its pinnacle in t...
Colors and more colors: new social media-friendly exhibition opens in Seoul

Nov 28, 2019

As the art scene becomes more social media-friendly, a new exhibition -- literally full of colors -- opened Friday, openly welcoming Instagram users. Sfactory, a culture complex in the hip Seongsu-d...
PKM Gallery’s exhibition brings together 6 internationally renowned artists

Nov 26, 2019

PKM Gallery is holding an exhibition where visitors can glimpse works by artists who have drawn a great deal of attention in the contemporary art world. PKM Gallery’s exhibition “Eternal Now,” co-cu...
Arko show highlights midcareer artists

Nov 26, 2019

Arko Art Center is holding its 2019 Mid-Career Artist Exhibition, which comprises two separate solo exhibitions dedicated to Bae Jong-heon and Heo Ku-young. The annual art show started in 2000 as a ...
Pompeii's grand baths unveiled, with hidden tragedy

Nov 26, 2019

POMPEII (AFP) -- Magnificent thermal baths designed to be the jewel of Pompeii but destroyed by a volcanic eruption before they could be completed opened to visitors for the first time on Monday afte...
Kim Whan-ki’s blue dot painting sets record for Korean painters

Nov 24, 2019

South Korean abstract master Kim Whan-ki’s major dot painting set a record for Korean painters at an auction in Hong Kong. “Universe 5-IV-71 #200” by the late Kim sold for HK$88 million ($11.2 milli...
[ASEAN-Korea summit] Handicrafts of Mekong on display in Busan

Nov 24, 2019

ASEAN Culture House under the Korea Foundation is to host mini fair “Bazaar Mekong: Handicraft and Design Goods,” introducing the art and design culture of the five Mekong countries. The exhibition ...
Painting by S. Korean abstract master Kim Whan-ki fetches 13.2b won in Hong Kong

Nov 24, 2019

HONG KONG -- A major dot painting by late South Korean abstract master Kim Whan-ki sold for HK$88 million, or 13.2 billion won ($11.2 million), in a Christie's auction in Hong Kong on Saturday. Acco...