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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
How much do we know of late artist? MMCA holds retrospective exhibition of Bahc Yi-so

The late artist Bahc Yi-so’s career was short-lived. He died of a heart attack in 2004 at age 47, two decades after launching his career in New York in 1984. The National Museum of Modern and Contemp...

July 30, 2018
Arts&Design
Arario Gallery show looks at how young artists deal with surroundings

People often write journals not just to record the daily grind but to look back and understand various encounters, experiences and phenomena. Titled “Jet Lagged,” the latest exhibition at Arario Gal...

July 29, 2018
Arts&Design
Violinist Clara-Jumi Kang displays wide-ranging virtuosity in Pyeongchang

PYEONGCHANG, Gangwon Province -- The 2018 Pyeongchang Music Festival is a great chance to hear versatile violinist Clara-Jumi Kang. She will appear as a chamber music member on one occasion, as a co...

July 26, 2018
Music
'Panmunjom and DMZ’ highlights history of divided peninsula

‘Scenes of National Division: Panmunjom and DMZ’ By Kim Nyung-man Yoonjin (288 pages, 45,000 won) Friday marks the 65th year since the two Koreas signed the armistice that brought the 1950-1953 Ko...

July 26, 2018
Book Review
Pyeongchang Music Festival kicks off, pianist Son Yeol-eum makes her debut as director

PYEONGCHANG, Gangwon Province -- Pianist Son Yeol-eum, the new artistic director of the Pyeongchang Music Festival, appeared nervous but excited to see the very first concert she has devoted herself ...

July 25, 2018
Music
Once blacklisted artist highlights controversial issues in solo exhibition

Artist Hong Sung-dam was on the Park Geun-hye administration’s blacklist of artists, which included a total of 9,473 names that were to be excluded from receiving state funds or support. His controv...

July 24, 2018
Arts&Design

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