I get my ideas from ordinary functional objects, which I try to make into works of art. It's more like everyday life.” Language also seems to be a touchstone in Lee's work. When the Seoul-born artist came to the United States in 1997 to study at the ...full story
Titled “Musee D'Orsay: Dream and Reality,“ an exhibition opened in June at the Seoul Arts Center in southern Seoul. Once the show ends its Seoul run on Sept. 25, it will travel to Singapore for four months before heading back to Paris next year. ...full story
Major works by influential Korean artists who have changed the landscape of Korean art - whether by incorporating unique subject matter or technique - will be shown at the “Rhetoric of the Images” exhibition at the Seoul Museum of Art. The exhibition ...full story
ISLAMABAD, Jul 7 (APP): Writer and poet, Esther Park, is leaving for South Korea on Friday with a bag full of photographs about Gandhara civilization that will be exhibited in art gallery at Seoul, South Korea, later this month. ...full story
By ARTINFO For the past 16 years, a South Korean law has required developers to commission a piece of public art for all large building projects and to spend one percent of the overall budget on its creation. Seoul has been flooded with thousands of ...full story
Mr Dix grew up in Toowoomba but decided to go overseas with his art because he wanted to break away from Australia's commercial art scene and concentrate on his original works. His first solo exhibition in Seoul in South Korea, titled Steven Dix, ...full story
The work is one of the more avant-garde sculptures in Seoul and the symbol of an art controversy in South Korea. For 16 years, a national law has required builders of large commercial projects to commission an adjoining piece of art — including ...full story
The “underground” craftsmen and artists of Seoul Art Space Sindang are initiating an exhibition titled "Gong, Gongui Bang _ Rooms for Art and Craft in Public Space,” at their other location, Seoul Art Space Seogyo near Hongik University ...full story
Stelarc is one of 47 artists exhibited in the show, which is jointly curated by Kim from the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Seoul and the Museum of Contemporary Art's Glenn Barkley. Tell Me Tell Me features six photographs of Stelarc hooked up ...full story
In 2002, a courthouse built by the Japanese in 1928 and then used by the South Koreans to house the Supreme Court reopened after extensive restoration as the Seoul Museum of Art. Crumbling old Seoul Station has also been restored for art exhibitions ...full story