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As China rises, top-selling painter looks to his roots

BEIJING (AFP) -- Blue-chip Chinese artist Zeng Fanzhi built up a lucrative career by looking to the West for inspiration and buyers, but a new retrospective in Beijing reveals an unlikely turn back t...

Oct 10, 2016
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Dance Members of Dance Theater Tic perform “Tropical.” (Official Facebook) “Seoul International Dance Festival”: Seoul Selection of the International Dance Council CID-UNESCO will be hosting the 1...

Oct 7, 2016
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[Herald Interview] Glass artist Kim Ki-ra looks back on life

During the creation of her latest collection “Dear Life,” glass artist Kim Ki-ra went to hell and back, and lived to tell the tale. “While I was working on the series, I hit the lowest point of my l...

Oct 6, 2016
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Contemporary art market slows as Chinese buyers switch focus

PARIS (AFP) - Global contemporary art sales slowed by a quarter in the year to July 2016 as demand in China dried up, according to leading index Artprice. Turnover was $1.5 billion (1.3 billion euro...

Oct 4, 2016
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Exhibitions Beolit 600 portable radio designed by Jacob Jensen (Bang & Olufsen) “Gathering Clouds”: Kukje Gallery is holding a solo exhibition of renowned artist Anish Kapoor until Oct. 30. The ex...

Sept 30, 2016
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Chin Un-suk named new SPO artistic adviser

Annual Ars Nova concert series to kick off next month

Sept 28, 2016
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Portugal to keep Miro collection

LISBON (AFP) - The Portuguese government said Tuesday it has decided to keep 85 works by famed Spanish artist Joan Miro in the country after an uproar over their proposed sale to foreign buyers. The...

Sept 28, 2016
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Bums and cash set tongues wagging at UK's Turner Prize

LONDON (AFP) -- A giant backside, a mountain of money and chastity belts suspended from a ceiling: the Turner Prize once again looks set to divide the contemporary art world after unveiling its final...

Sept 27, 2016
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‘Child porn’ row engulfs US photographer's Moscow show

MOSCOW (AFP) - Pro-Kremlin activists who threw urine at pictures by US photographer Jock Sturges -- best known for nude images of adolescents and their families -- on Sunday forced its closure, a day...

Sept 26, 2016
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Florence museum head defends party rental in Pitti Palace

ROME (AP) -- A wild bachelor’s party at the Pitti Palace art museum in Florence? Nothing of the kind, says museum director Eike Schmidt, who is defending the Renaissance palazzo’s courtyard’s rental...

Sept 25, 2016
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Theater “Mr. Show”: Produced by renowned musical director Kolleen Park, the naughty male striptease “Mr. Show” is returning to the stage this year. The women-only variety show features strapping yo...

Sept 23, 2016
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NCCK to open with foreigner-friendly ‘L’Orfeo’

Nonverbal, subtitled cultural productions on the rise in Seoul

Sept 21, 2016
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Artday to hold September auction

Herald Artday, a subsidiary of Herald Corp., is holding an online auction from Sept. 23-27, presenting major works of art by contemporary Korean and international artists. The art auction will fea...

Sept 21, 2016
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Abu Dhabi names Louvre outpost director, plans 2017 launch

DUBAI (AP) -- Art lovers will have to wait a bit longer to visit a much-anticipated Mideast outpost of the Louvre, which will be headed by a Frenchman involved in the project for years. The Abu Dhab...

Sept 21, 2016
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Big Bang’s T.O.P to take part in Sotheby’s charity auction

T.O.P of the popular K-pop boy band Big Bang said Monday he feels honored to curate a charity auction by one of the world’s largest brokers of collectibles. “I carefully chose each one of the items ...

Sept 19, 2016
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