The lights change every 10 minutes to create daytime and nighttime views of the country -- pink for sunrise, blue for sundown and everything turns black at night. The pavilion is open from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., Tuesday to Sunday with last admission at 6 p.m. The admission fee costs 2,000 won for adults and 1,000 won for children, with a 50 percent discount for Nowon residents. The exhibition hall ...

Rhee has been attracted to fog and water as motifs in his paintings. At the exhibition in 2003 at Kukje Gallery, “There is No Place -- The Connective,” the artist presented a water tank filled with blue liquid, from which his interest gradually evolved into fog and vapor. The artist chose the words “phantom” or “abyss” in explaining his works at the exhibition and said the concept is underpins t...

“The bottle cap sculpture ‘New World Symphony’ is quite large in scale, which is almost a museum scale and was created for the exhibition at the gallery. As for the wooden reliefs, the artist worked on the series in the 1990s but recently started it again -- the wooden panel piece ‘of Realities and Illusion’ was created this year and is being shown for the first time,” Kaiah Lee, a director at Ba...

After looking around the exhibition, visitors will be led to a pop-up bar next to Hwigyeomjae where ones can taste three types of Balvenie whisky-based cocktail creations inspired by Korean craftsmanship. Reservations are required and admission is free. The show runs through Tuesday.

Ting Tong Chang's video work “The Blue Wave Woman,” a 10-minute single channel video based on the artist’s research about the shrine is presented on the site. The work features traditional folk songs from Jeju Island which he collected in collaboration with a local musician. “I worked with Hong Kong composers, so we used experimental music and combined folk music from Korea," the artist said. B...

The gallery also represents Korean artist Lee Bae whose solo show “Souffle d’Encre” is taking place at Perrotin Shanghai throughout Dec. 17. The artworks comprise the artist’s recent large drawings from the Brushstroke series that feature charcoal, along with three sculptures that may signal the artist’s future artistic practice. “Without enough budget to buy paint, Lee Bae came upon a sack of b...

The hourlong show will take place at 3 p.m. and 5 p.m. on Friday and 6 p.m. and 7 p.m. on Saturday at the museum. Anyone who holds a ticket to the exhibition are invited to see the performance. The program is prepared jointly by the MMCA and the Korean Traditional Performing Arts Foundation. The exhibition itself runs through Feb. 26, 2023.

One of the few self-portraits by German painter Max Beckmann (1884-1950) will be auctioned by the German auction house Grisebach in Berlin on Dec. 1. The artist, who lived through the two world wars, is known as one of the most influential artists of the time. “Selbstbildnis gelb-rosa” is a self-portrait painted in 1943 and has been privately owned since its creation. Beckmann took refuge in Hol...

Art collectors in South Korea have largely remained reluctant to share their collections as collecting art pieces has long been considered a niche for the wealthy. This reluctance, however, has been gradually changing, especially among younger generations who are willing to share what they collect as well as wanting to learn about others. The newly opened exhibition space ABCollections caters to...

The deal is expected to be fully completed by the end of the year. “The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism will later buy a quarter of the plot to build a museum to house the Lee Kun-hee collection. The rest of the plot will be turned into a park managed by the city government,” said an official from the city government. Is Lee Kun-hee Museum next? While some hope for the land to be turne...

Other topics in the book include -- “The New Visual Culture of Photography and Print Media” and “The Globalization of Contemporary Korean Art in the Era of Biennales.” Published on Oct.25, the book includes some 400 paintings and the chronology of Korean art from the 1900s to 2000s in the later part of the book. The book was distributed to overseas museums, according to MMCA. The Korean version ...

Robinson and his team were in Seoul recently, meeting with officials from the National Museum of Korea, the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea as well as major commercial galleries in the city. Robinson, who was appointed to head the museum in 2018, remembered his first visit to Seoul 12 or 13 years ago. One major change he was surprised to see this time was the growth in the ...

Meanwhile, Phillips will offer “Le Pere,” a painting by Marc Chagall, at Tuesday's New York evening sale of 20th Century and Contemporary Art. Estimated to sell for $6 million to $8 million, the piece is among the 15 works of art that the French government restituted to the rightful owners earlier this year as part of an ongoing effort to return works in its museums that were wrongfully seized by...

Park's new Ecriture painting was unveiled at Fondazione Querini Stampalia in Venice, Italy, to coincide with the 59th Venice Biennale. The 2.6-meter-wide painting, “Ecriture No 190512-21” featuring pastel colors in his early pencil Ecriture style, took nearly three years to complete. The Venice exhibition runs through Nov. 22. By Park Yuna ( yunapark@heraldcorp.com )

At Thaddaeus Ropac there is “Copperheads 1985/1989,” an exhibition of representative metal works by US artist Robert Rauschenberg’s Copperheads series created between 1985 and 1989. The first of Rauschenberg’s 15 metal series mark the artist’s early experiment with creating images directly on sheets of metal using silkscreen printing techniques, acrylic paint and tarnishing agents. The surfaces ...