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BERLIN (AP) ― Conveyor belts hum quietly, towering over piles of dark red wax. A giant mauve object that looks like a deflating balloon sprawls and sags its way across three rooms. A dark pigment circle creates the illusion of a black hole opening up in the floor. And there are lots of mi...
Updated : 2013.05.21 19:55
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There are more than 100 shades of blue on a color chart. But the blues we see in real life are limited to a few seen in our random gazes at the sky in the middle of the day. At James Turrell’s “Skys...
Updated : 2013.05.20 20:11
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Six years after its 2007 Seoul run, South Africa’s iconic musical “Umoja: The Spirit of Togetherness” is back in Korea to show off the country’s colorful and explosive culture, deeply linked to it...
Updated : 2013.05.19 20:11
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WONJU, Gangwon Province ― Hansol Museum, home to a lifetime art collection of the founder and adviser to Hansol Group Lee In-hee, the eldest daughter of Samsung’s founding chairman Lee Byung-chul, o...
Updated : 2013.05.16 19:56
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VATICAN CITY (AFP) ― Five centuries after Michelangelo, the Vatican has commissioned fresh works on the biblical themes of creation and chaos for a show at the prestigious Venice Biennale art festiva...
Updated : 2013.05.15 20:19
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NEW YORK (AFP) ― A painting by Barnett Newman that Sotheby’s described as an icon of Abstract Expressionism sold Tuesday in New York for a record $43.84 million at an auction peppered with stunningl...
Updated : 2013.05.15 20:19
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After American choreographer William Forsythe’s cutting-edge performance “Heterotopia” last month, Korea’s dance scene is welcoming yet another experimental work from overseas, this time by French...
Updated : 2013.05.14 19:59
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FRANKFURT (AFP) ― The German theater director whose controversial staging of a Richard Wagner opera to a Nazi-era theme was cancelled after the premiere hit back Monday at what he saw as “censorship.”“What happened in Duesseldorf is the censorship of art. That is the real scandal,” Bu...
Updated : 2013.05.14 19:56
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The nature depicted by artist Kim Bo-hie looks familiar to many with common motifs such as leaves, trees and flowers. But what captures the viewers’ attention are the details ― such as an exotic-loo...
Updated : 2013.05.13 20:36
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Artday, a sister company of The Korea Herald, is holding an online auction and an exhibition in conjunction with Jean Gallery and Lotte Department Store from May 17-22. The auction offers good deals o...
Updated : 2013.05.12 20:30
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LOS ANGELES (AFP) ― The Getty Museum of Los Angeles announced Thursday it has acquired a self-portrait by Rembrandt and a painting by the Venetian artist Canaletto.“Rembrandt Laughing,” a small oil on copper work probably done around 1628, came onto the art market in 2007 after spending...
Updated : 2013.05.12 19:43
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LONDON (AFP) ― A work by renowned British graffiti artist Banksy that was withdrawn from a controversial U.S. auction is being put up for sale again in London, auctioneers said Saturday.The mural, called “Slave Labour,” mysteriously vanished from its original site on a wall in north Lon...
Updated : 2013.05.12 19:43
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Museums and galleries are not just places to view exhibitions. They could be a place for finding undiscovered talents and a source of inspiration in an otherwise routine life. And traditional hands-on...
Updated : 2013.05.10 20:49
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Famed Japanese writer Haruki Murakami is currently in the international spotlight for his recently released novel “Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage.” But Seoul’s Daehangno, the ...
Updated : 2013.05.09 19:15
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Artworks of young artists are being offered at affordable prices online as part of efforts to boost art sales and promote young artists to a wider audience. Gana Art Gallery and Wemakeprice.com, a soc...
Updated : 2013.05.08 20:17
