In Seoul, Samsung Electronics edged down 0.2% after it forecast a decline in second-quarter operating profit. Samsung's Galaxy 5 is set for launch this Friday. In Hong Kong, China Railsmedia shares jumped 22% after the company said it will buy i-Marker ...full story
The VAC lobby has been Jongku's studio during his two-week residency at the CU Boulder Department of Art and Art History. On Tuesday, Feb. 11, a performance, lecture and panel discussion hosted by the visiting artist and University Libraries exposed ...full story
One Seoul plastic surgery clinic took that strategy to its ultimate, stomach-turning height by building a tower filled with the shaved chin bones of their clients. Like bizarre, tiny boomerangs, slivers of bone fill a large plastic container in an ...full story
The Hong Kong affiliate of Seoul Auction, the nation's largest art auction house, said it expects to make a profit this year, ending five-consecutive years of losing money. Seoul Auction said that this year's sales in Hong Kong have increased by 27 ...full story
Now that the biennial is over, Performa founder RoseLee Goldberg is in snowy Moscow where she's part of Garage Center's “First International Conference. Performance Art: Ethics in Action.” Here, courtesy of Performa via Moscow, is someone standing on a ...full story
The Samsung Museum of Art in Seoul is hosting a solo exhibition of the works of internationally renowned artist Hiroshi Sugimoto, which is set to run until 23 March 2014. The museum is bringing together the photographer's works which date from the late ...full story
The brand new Seoul branch of the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, or MMCA for short, offers visitors a chance to get away from the hustle and bustle of city life. It is a retreat of sorts, located in the heart of Seoul. Imagine a world where ...full story
The exhibition, in its fourth year, presents some 90 photographs and pieces of media art by 18 artists from 10 ASEAN member countries, including Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore and Thailand, and five Korean artists, at the Seoul ...full story
Seoul Auction, the biggest Korean auction house, has realised a total of $10.2 million at its sale of contemporary art, which was held in Hong Kong on 24 November. The sale offered 59 lots by Western, Korean, Japanese, Chinese and Pakistani artists.full story
Total Museum of Contemporary Art is located on a hilly precinct of Seoul, capital of the Republic of Korea called Pyeongchang-Dong. Actually an art gallery, it is sandwiched by many other art galleries though it was the first to set up shop there more ...full story