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Posted inArt

Painting Against the Tyranny of Flatness

by John Yau September 14, 2022September 14, 2022

Korea’s Dansaekhwa artists eschewed the idea of art-about-art and commodity culture in favor of an abstract art imbued with traces of the struggle for liberation and cultural identity.

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Little Ark Opens at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea

Avatar photo by National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea September 8, 2022September 8, 2022

Made of iron and recycled cardboard boxes, Choe U-ram’s ship puts on a performance that seeks to reconstruct reality. On view in Seoul through February 26, 2023.

Posted inArt

Mira Park Knows What We Dream About

by John Yau September 7, 2022September 8, 2022

In her art, Park is in touch with our collective anxieties about a future that seems to darken with each passing day.

Posted inNews

Why Is A South Korean Museum Auctioning Off National Treasures?

by Hakim Bishara January 20, 2022January 20, 2022

It’s the first time in the country’s history that objects of this significance are offered for public sale.

Posted inArt

An Artist’s Ephemeral Monuments

Avatar photo by Jaewon Choi April 13, 2019April 12, 2019

At first glance, Sue Yon Hwang’s paper statues look like misplaced monoliths: totemic, ritualistic, and ancient.

Posted inArt

Lo-Fi Art for the Internet Age

Avatar photo by Jaewon Choi February 9, 2019February 8, 2019

Noh Sangho asks if the terms of eye-catching, short-lived virality were not so different in the 16th century as they are now.

Posted inArt

A Photographer’s Images of a Changing Seoul After the Korean War

by Alissa Guzman April 27, 2017April 27, 2017

An exhibition at ICP at Mana showcases the pictures made by Han Youngsoo upon returning from the front line.

Posted inArt

Two Iconoclasts Offer a Fuller Picture of Korean Modernism

by Bansie Vasvani October 21, 2016

Exhibitions in Seoul devoted to Wook-kyung Choi and Yong-Ik Kim give a sense of Korean artists’ vibrant responses to the monochrome Dansaekhwa movement of the 1970s.

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The New Director of South Korea’s National Modern Art Museum Responds to His Critics

by Claire Voon December 16, 2015December 16, 2015

On Monday Bartomeu Marí, the former head of the Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, began his new job as head of South Korea’s National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, marking the first time the museum has had an official director in over a year.

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Oppa Public Art! Seoul Set to Unveil Golden “Gangnam Style” Monument

by Claire Voon November 11, 2015November 12, 2015

In mid-December, the district of Gangnam in Seoul will unveil a large bronze sculpture depicting the overlapping fists that are part of the “Gangnam Style” video’s iconic horse-riding dance.

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