When Kian84 made a cameo as a webtoon artist in the TV drama Today’s Webtoon, it was a nod to his former career as one of Korea’s most popular manhwa artists. Kian84—aka Kim Hee-min—created the wildly ...
When we think of Modern art, the innovations of Picasso, Duchamp, Kandinsky, and the Abstract Expressionists are what tend to spring most readily to mind. Now, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art is ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Joan Vos MacDonald is a New York-based writer who covers Korean media. In the last decade South Korea has earned acclaim for ...
First, there was the frenzy surrounding the Frieze Seoul launch. Then there are major exhibitions of Korean art and culture staged at leading institutions such as the Los Angeles County Museum of Art ...
“The Space Between: The Modern in Korean Art” is now available to visit at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. The exhibit explore modern Korean art throughout five distinct periods of the 20th ...
Seoul is the latest major city to establish itself as a significant international hub for new art. With that distinction comes the expected propagation of ambitious museum exhibitions seeking to ...
There are at least five exhibitions of Korean art at major U.S. museums this fall. The featured works vary from early 12th-century stoneware to a sculpture made from soap. By Ted Loos This article is ...
The reinstalled Korean gallery of the Peabody Essex Museum opened this spring after a 13-year closure. Its name, the Yu Kil-Chun Gallery of Korean Art and Culture, commemorates a young diplomat from ...
The appointment of a new director to South Korea’s National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art last week has extenuated the concerns of the country's art community over issues of government and ...
Jang Pa, "Lady-X No. 5" (2015) (photo by Hongsuk Kim, courtesy the artist) Kim Hong-hee illuminates a vision of Korean art history in which no one is othered in Korean Feminist Artists: Confront and ...
The BTS leader RM, whose real name is Kim Namjoon, will help introduce Korean history and cultural heritage to audiences around the world ...
On the occasion of the new publication, The Making of Modern Korean Art: The Letters of Kim Tschang-Yeul, Kim Whanki, Lee Ufan, and Park Seo-Bo, 1961–1982, Asia Society brings together the ...