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Upcoming performances worth adding to the fall calendar

Sept 18, 2016

With the Chuseok holiday behind us, temperatures will soon begin to drop and live performance lovers will flock indoors to enjoy nights of cultural programs. Whether one’s interests lie in dabbling in the arts scene or head-banging the night away to the latest rock hits, the upcoming fall season promises a variety of performances. The country’s two biggest ballet companies will be staging two c...
Van Gogh may have been ‘bi-polar’: researcher

Sept 18, 2016

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AFP) -- Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh was possibly bipolar or had a borderline personality, but a combination of factors likely drove him to cut off his ear and commit suicide, a researcher said Friday. “We’ve come to the conclusion that it’s impossible to draw a final conclusion about his illness,” said Louis van Tilborgh, a senior researcher at Amsterdam‘s renowned Van ...
Review: ‘Aubergine’ is a rich homage to the power of food

Sept 13, 2016

What’s for dinner? How about a rich stew of multi-generational family communication failures, served with a tender side dish of unspoken love spiced with subtle comic seasoning? And for dessert, some acceptance of death topped off with life-affirming epiphanies? The attempt to create a perfect meal to communicate with someone else can be fraught with a complex mixture of memories and hopes, whic...
‘Ham-ick’ play explores psychological turmoil of female Hamlet

Sept 13, 2016

With this year marking the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, theater stages in Seoul have seen their fair share of tribute performances of some of the playwright’s most-beloved masterpieces this year. In April, the Seoul Metropolitan Theatre opened its 2016 season with a production of “Henry IV: Part I and II,” the first time the play was performed in Seoul in 14 years. Once again bring...
Modern meets traditional in Gansong exhibition

Sept 12, 2016

Contemporary artists pay tribute to famed art collector Jeon Hyeong-pil in a show marking the 110th anniversary of his birth
‘Daddy’ of supermodels in focus at new photo expo

Sept 12, 2016

ROTTERDAM, Netherlands (AFP) - In the glitzy, glamorous world of high fashion, photographer Peter Lindbergh is a rarity. The clothes are almost an after-thought, and Vogue magazine once tossed a now iconic picture into the bin. But this modest German, opening his first major international retrospective in Rotterdam, is the man credited with creating supermodels such as Naomi Campbell, Cindy Craw...
[Highlights] Arts and entertainment calendar

Sept 9, 2016

Theater “Mr. Show”: By renowned musical director Kolleen Park, the naughty male striptease show “Mr. Show” is returning to the stage this year. The women-only variety show features strapping young men who dance and perform various themed acts that are geared toward tantalizing females. The live show – only for those 19 and above -- will be staged from Sept. 24 to Dec. 4 at the Shinhan Car...
Fall art shows in full swing

Sept 8, 2016

Museums and galleries present diverse exhibitions in time for biennale season
‘Old Wicked Songs’ to hit Seoul stage this month

Sept 6, 2016

Exposing the convoluted and dynamic relationship between mentor and mentees, Jon Marans’ 1996 Pulitzer Prize nominated dramatic musical play “Old Wicked Songs” will hit the Seoul stage starting Sept. 21. Set in a rehearsal studio in Vienna, Austria, the seemingly simplistic two-man play is anything but. The storyline follows the relationship between Josef Mashkan, a Viennese music professor, and...
Gwangju Biennale 2016 explores future

Sept 5, 2016

Led by Swedish curator Maria Lind, 2016 event questions the role of art today
The exhibition of Reading Gaol: Wilde's prison opens doors

Sept 5, 2016

READING, United Kingdom (AFP) - Reading Gaol broke Oscar Wilde during his two-year incarceration but 120 years later, the prison is welcoming the Irish writer back -- this time through his works, in an exhibition on isolation. Her Majesty's Prison Reading, west of London, is also hosting works from the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei and British visual artist Steve McQueen for the exhibition entitled “...
Busan Biennale highlights East Asian avant-garde art movements

Sept 2, 2016

Busan Biennale, one of the largest celebrations of contemporary art in Korea, opened on Saturday, bringing together more than 100 artists from 22 countries in the port city of Busan. This year’s exhibition, themed with “Hybridizing Earth, Discussing Multitude,” highlights East Asian experimental art trends and their historical significance. The show is curated and presented by the curatorial te...
Seoul Media Art Biennale explores new languages to define future

Aug 31, 2016

Growing number of women and young artists featured at multimedia biennale
Performance artist explores female sensuality

Aug 29, 2016

Jeong, winner of 16th Hermes Foundation Missulsang, reveals her collection of sexual and medical objects used in her voyeurism-provoking work
US judge: Renowned artist did not create disputed painting

Aug 24, 2016

CHICAGO (AP) -- A US judge said Tuesday that a celebrated artist was right when he insisted he did not paint a work now owned by a retired prison worker, a finding that likely ensures the piece will now be worth a fraction of the previous estimated value of $10 million or more. The ruling came at the end of an unusual bench trial in Chicago that pitted Scottish-born Peter Doig against Canadian R...