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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.

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An Artist’s Ephemeral Monuments

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.

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Lo-Fi Art for the Internet Age

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.

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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.

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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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