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 ...

A Korean gallerist is staging a new boutique art fair in London this summer to showcase emerging talents from her home country in a bid to boost the exposure of contemporary K-art abroad. Featuring ...

DIFFERENT CULTURES. WHEN YOU WALK INSIDE THE HOWARD COUNTY WELCOME CENTER, MICHELLE KIM HOPES TO TRANSPORT YOU TO A LITTLE KOREA. WE WANTED TO SHARE OUR KOREAN CULTURE WITH OTHER ETHNIC GROUPS SO WE ...

On a weekday afternoon this fall, the largest museum in South Korea looked as if it were preparing for a K-pop concert. Outside, a maze of crowd control barriers had been installed. A sign at the gift ...

“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 ...

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 ...

Artists, being people, are drawn to power. Like moths to a flame. What they do in their work with the relationship they seek with it can vary widely. But rarely is power just ignored. A sizable new ...

Deep in the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), an area about 160 miles long and 2½ miles wide that separates North and South Korea, former South Korean soldier Mr. Kim sets out on his covert sunset-to-sunrise ...

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 ...

Part I. Ancient to Medieval Cultures on the Korean Peninsula. Early Paintings of Korea: Murals and Craft Decorations / Minku Kim -- Sculptures of the Three Kingdoms and Unified Silla / Sunkyung Kim -- ...

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 ...

This is the first installment in a six-part series exploring the current state and future of Korean art collections and galleries in museums around the world. The series is supported by the Press ...