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Plastic Art Seoul to highlight Korean sculptures and installations

The Plastic Art Seoul 2016, Korea‘s first art fair devoted to sculptures and installations, will open next week in Seoul. The art fair will bring together more than 4,000 pieces of plastic art by so...

Jul 12, 2016
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Exhibitions offer glimpse of two very different lives of Joseon

Two exhibitions in Seoul are offering a rare glimpse into the lives of different social classes in the Joseon era. Seoul Arts Center’s Calligraphy Museum has brought together a rare collection of st...

Jul 11, 2016
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Thousands strip and paint themselves blue for U.K. art event

LONDON (AP) -- Thousands of people have stripped naked and painted themselves in four shades of blue to celebrate the English city of Hull’s relationship with the sea. Naked volunteers, painted in b...

Jul 10, 2016
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[Highlights] Arts and entertainment calendar

Exhibitions Installation view of artist Gwon O-sang’s solo exhibition “New Structure and Relief” at the Arario Gallery in Seoul. (Arario Gallery) “New Structure and Relief”: Artist Gwon O-sa...

Jul 8, 2016
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Retired freighter transformed into rest spot for museum visitors

A retired cargo ship that operated between Mokpo and Jejudo Island for 35 years has become an architecture installation that serves as a summertime shelter in the courtyard of the National Museum of ...

Jul 7, 2016
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Batik reinterpreted with digital technology

An unusual exhibition of batik-meets-digital was held June 30 at the Art and Technology Expression Center, Seoul Institute of the Arts in Ansan, Gyeonggi Province. “Batik: Accumulation of Time – Mee...

Jul 6, 2016
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[Hallyu Power] B-boy Wing helps Korean break dancing take flight

When it was first introduced by young street dancers in New York City in the early 1970s, the distinctive art of break dancing, or B-boying, was widely seen as a nonglamourous, low-level style of str...

Jul 5, 2016
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Georgia O’Keeffe gets big London show

LONDON (AP) -- Georgia O’Keeffe has come to London, like a bracing American desert wind rippling the River Thames. An exhibition of more than 100 works opening this week at Tate Modern is the Americ...

Jul 5, 2016
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International art market to draw thousands to New Mexico

SANTA FE, New Mexico (AP) -- From the plains of Africa to war-torn countries in the Middle East, nearly 200 artists from around the world will be showing off their traditional crafts during the world...

Jul 5, 2016
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Show highlights ‘unknown’ young talents

The new group exhibition of young artists at Kukje Gallery asks a question that the youth of today can easily relate to -- to what extent do we need to try to be successful and famous? “There is des...

Jul 4, 2016
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Christo's popular floating orange walkway closes

ROME (AFP) - Artist Christo’s orange floating walkway on a northern Italian lake closed Sunday after attracting over 1.2 million visitors, twice as many as expected. The 3-kilometer undulating path ...

Jul 4, 2016
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Rembrandt's 'Kim and Kanye' back home after 400 years

AMSTERDAM (AFP) - Almost four centuries after Dutch master Rembrandt painted a young married couple, their two portraits are back home in the Netherlands thanks to a unique joint 160 million euro ($1...

Jul 4, 2016
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New musical ‘Peste’ to feature music of Seo Tai-ji

The cast of the upcoming musical “Peste” pose at a press conference held at the Di Nozze Convention center in Seoul on Thursday. (Yonhap) A musical based on the tragic tale of French author Albert ...

Jul 3, 2016
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Lee U-fan claims alleged counterfeits are authentic

Artist Lee U-fan reiterated Thursday that all 13 paintings that the National Forensic Service identified as counterfeits were authentic and revealed that a police officer tried to get him to say that...

Jun 30, 2016
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Chun sketches pulled from auction over forgery suspicion

Seoul Auction has withdrawn a book of sketches by Korean artist Chun Kyung-ja that was due to be auctioned Wednesday. The book of 16 drawings by Chun, bidding for which was set to start at 400 milli...

Jun 29, 2016
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