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August 20, 2018 Culture

Performance recast into painting: Ma Liuming holds solo exhibition in Seoul

Chinese performance artist and painter Ma Liuming is holding a solo exhibition at Hakgojae Gallery in Seoul until Sept. 16. Titled “Sediment of Performance,” Ma’s latest exhibition features paintin...

National Folk Museum of Korea to bring ‘mobile museums’ to Asian Games

The National Folk Museum of Korea will operate mobile museums at the 18th Asian Games Jakarta-Palembang 2018, which run from Aug. 18 through Sept. 2. Also called “Korean culture boxes,“ mobile museu...

August 17, 2018
Culture
Conductor Chung Myung-whun, KBS Symphony Orchestra reunite after 20 years

Maestro Chung Myung-whun is getting ready to conduct the KBS Symphony Orchestra for the first time in 20 years. Chung’s last concert with the orchestra took place in March 1998 in Japan, when he hel...

August 17, 2018
Music
‘One Night in Paris’ and ‘Disney in Concert’ offer a late-summer treat after heat wave

Seoulites suffering from “cabin fever” after spending weeks indoors with their air conditioners on full blast might find some relief at Olympic Park 88 Grass Yard, where “Disney in Concert” and sopra...

August 16, 2018
Music
2018 Gwangju Biennale starts taking shape

Slated to kick off on Sept. 7, 2018 Gwangju Biennale expects to complete all preparations by Sept. 4, according to the biennale foundation officials Monday. A total of 164 artists from 43 countries ...

August 14, 2018
Arts&Design
Genius reinvented, pianist Kim Sun-wook returns with new resolution

Even if you have something you love as a lifelong career, there can be moments you lose the passion you once had. Pianist Kim Sun-wook said during a press conference Tuesday that he had those moment...

August 14, 2018
Music
Pianist Kim Tae-hyung and SPO members to perform chamber pieces by Russian composers

Pianist Kim Tae-hyung and members of the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra will perform in a concert featuring chamber music pieces composed by Russian composers on Aug. 24 at the Sejong Chamber Hall in S...

August 13, 2018
Music
Ki Joo-bong wins best actor prize at Locarno Film Festival

Ki Joo-bong won the best actor award at the 2018 Locarno Film Festival that ended Saturday. He won the prize for his performance in Hong Sang-soo’s 2018 film “Hotel by the River.” Ki is a veteran ac...

August 12, 2018
Film
MMCA presents works by 2018 Korea Artist Prize candidates

The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art’s Seoul branch will launch an exhibition of the 2018 Korea Artist Prize candidates Saturday, featuring works by four candidates selected earlier thi...

August 9, 2018
Arts&Design
Art museums incorporate live performances to attract visitors

Museums are more than exhibition spaces for art these days, as they increasingly add various kinds of live performances to attract more visitors, as well as to offer a better museum experience. The ...

August 8, 2018
Arts&Design
Yun Hyong-keun retrospective at MMCA: ‘True sorrow is connected to true beauty’

Dark-colored columns and planes lie on giant linen and cotton canvases. Upon a close look, one can see the gradation of colors on the rough textures of the canvases. Late monochrome painter Yun Hyong...

August 7, 2018
Arts&Design
Are you a picky snob or a kitsch-lover?

Artist and photographer Coco Capitan’s solo exhibition in Seoul comes across as rather straightforward, but still raises certain questions, perhaps because the artist crosses boundaries between art a...

August 6, 2018
Arts&Design
Kallaci String Quartet fills late violinist Kwun Hyuk-joo's place

Kallaci String Quartet now has a new member on the violin, a position left vacant for two years following the unexpected death of violinist Kwun Hyuk-joo. Since Kwun’s passing, the group had been inv...

August 3, 2018
Music
Orchestra to hold concert near DMZ

The Lindenbaum Festival Orchestra will hold a peace-promoting concert at Camp Greaves, a former military base in the northernmost area of South Korea, just 2 kilometers from the Demilitarized Zone, i...

August 1, 2018
Music
Pianist Lim Dong-hyek on chamber music spree

Pianist Lim Dong-hyek will perform in a series of chamber music concerts in August, starting with a performance with the rising Veits Quintet on Aug. 14 at the Lotte Concert Hall in Seoul. Establish...

July 31, 2018
Music

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