ENTERTAINMENT
Romania pledges more public funds to buy Brancusi sculpture
BUCHAREST (AP) -- Romania’s government says it will use public funds to buy a nationally treasured work by sculptor Constantin Brancusi after a donation campaign failed to raise the money needed. Th...
Oct 13, 2016
KNO opens 2016-2017 season with ‘Tosca’
Kicking off its 2016-2017 season, the Korea National Opera is gearing up to present its latest rendition of one of the operatic world’s most tragic love stories -- Giacomo Puccini’s “Tosca.” The Ita...
Oct 12, 2016
A ballet with Korean twist, ‘Sin-Si’ readies to hit Seoul stage
Seoul Metropolitan Dance Theater is gearing up to stage its latest production, “Sin-Si, The Festival of the Sun,” a ballet combining the art of traditional Korean dance. Depicting the motif of the D...
Oct 11, 2016
As China rises, top-selling painter looks to his roots
BEIJING (AFP) -- Blue-chip Chinese artist Zeng Fanzhi built up a lucrative career by looking to the West for inspiration and buyers, but a new retrospective in Beijing reveals an unlikely turn back t...
Oct 10, 2016
[Highlights] Arts and entertainment calendar
Dance Members of Dance Theater Tic perform “Tropical.” (Official Facebook) “Seoul International Dance Festival”: Seoul Selection of the International Dance Council CID-UNESCO will be hosting the 1...
Oct 7, 2016
[Herald Interview] Glass artist Kim Ki-ra looks back on life
During the creation of her latest collection “Dear Life,” glass artist Kim Ki-ra went to hell and back, and lived to tell the tale. “While I was working on the series, I hit the lowest point of my l...
Oct 6, 2016
Contemporary art market slows as Chinese buyers switch focus
PARIS (AFP) - Global contemporary art sales slowed by a quarter in the year to July 2016 as demand in China dried up, according to leading index Artprice. Turnover was $1.5 billion (1.3 billion euro...
Oct 4, 2016
Exhibitions Beolit 600 portable radio designed by Jacob Jensen (Bang & Olufsen) “Gathering Clouds”: Kukje Gallery is holding a solo exhibition of renowned artist Anish Kapoor until Oct. 30. The ex...
Sept 30, 2016
Chin Un-suk named new SPO artistic adviser
Annual Ars Nova concert series to kick off next month
Sept 28, 2016
Portugal to keep Miro collection
LISBON (AFP) - The Portuguese government said Tuesday it has decided to keep 85 works by famed Spanish artist Joan Miro in the country after an uproar over their proposed sale to foreign buyers. The...
Bums and cash set tongues wagging at UK's Turner Prize
LONDON (AFP) -- A giant backside, a mountain of money and chastity belts suspended from a ceiling: the Turner Prize once again looks set to divide the contemporary art world after unveiling its final...
Sept 27, 2016
‘Child porn’ row engulfs US photographer's Moscow show
MOSCOW (AFP) - Pro-Kremlin activists who threw urine at pictures by US photographer Jock Sturges -- best known for nude images of adolescents and their families -- on Sunday forced its closure, a day...
Sept 26, 2016
Florence museum head defends party rental in Pitti Palace
ROME (AP) -- A wild bachelor’s party at the Pitti Palace art museum in Florence? Nothing of the kind, says museum director Eike Schmidt, who is defending the Renaissance palazzo’s courtyard’s rental...
Sept 25, 2016
Theater “Mr. Show”: Produced by renowned musical director Kolleen Park, the naughty male striptease “Mr. Show” is returning to the stage this year. The women-only variety show features strapping yo...
Sept 23, 2016
NCCK to open with foreigner-friendly ‘L’Orfeo’
Nonverbal, subtitled cultural productions on the rise in Seoul
Sept 21, 2016