... the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam in the Netherlands, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Koreans have had a positive response to his designs. According to Park Maep-si of the Stockmansshop in Seoul, customers were at first quite curious ...full story
As an artist, she says that Seoul is good for her work as Korean society has many complex things happening which can be a good subject for contemporary art. ``I want my work to be shown first in Seoul because the reaction in the city is very quick and ...full story
The 'ASEAN Prism' exhibit, running through today at the ASEAN Center on the eighth floor of the Seoul Press Center, offers a chance to partake of Asia's most notable craftworks in one space. Designers hailing from Korea and the 10 Southeast Asian ...full story
For Henricksen, art is a way to connect people. ``In my narrative base, there is a storyline we can all work with and talk about, and experience together," he said. The exhibition runs through June 21. Arario Seoul is located near Anguk Station Line 3 ...full story
A few minutes from the palace is the decent National Museum on Contemporary Art, where international and Korean artists get a regular showing. The tranquility of the palace grounds are a great contrast to much of the rest of the city -- not far away ...full story
Snyder, who was stationed near Seoul, South Korea, while in the US Army, shot the pictures digitally in a Purdue University studio. Van Oosten, an Asian American Studies graduate instructor at Purdue and an Asian American originally from Colorado, ...full story
by Shin Sang-soon By Cathy Rose A. Garcia The much-anticipated exhibition of works by Impressionist master Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) finally opens at the Seoul Museum of Art, downtown Seoul, Thursday. ``Renoir: Promise of Happiness'' marks the ...full story
Now, Daehangno is filled with theaters, cinemas, shops, bars and cafes, but often overlooked is the Arko Art Center. Since moving in 1979, it has occupied the space formerly occupied by the Seoul National University College of Liberal Arts and Science ...full story
Also new in 2009 are Lisboa 20 Arte Contemporânea from Lisbon (Portugal), Office Baroque from Antwerp (Belgium), Kamm from Berlin (Germany) and hiromiyoshii from Tokyo (Japan). Every autumn Frieze Art Fair reinvigorates the artistic and cultural scene ...full story
The result is a multi-national collaboration that created the "Prada Transformer" – a metamorphic architectural art project standing right inside the 16th century Gyeonghui Palace in the heart of the bustling city of Seoul. The 66-foot-tall tetrahedron ...full story