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LONDON (AFP) ― A work by renowned British graffiti artist Banksy that was withdrawn from a controversial U.S. auction is being put up for sale again in London, auctioneers said Saturday.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, ...
Updated : 2013.05.12 19:43
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Participants take part in a pottery class for foreigners at Seoul Museum of Art. (Seoul Museum of Art) Museums and galleries are not just places to view exhibitions. They could be a place for findi...
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 s...
Updated : 2013.05.08 20:17
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Auguste Rodin sculpture, “The Thinker.” (AP-Yonhap News) NEW YORK (AP) ― Two early casts from Auguste Rodin’s masterpiece “The Gates of Hell’’ have sold for a total of more than $16 million a...
Updated : 2013.05.08 20:15
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LAS VEGAS (AP) ― Michael Jackson spent his life breaking music industry records. Four years after his death, the pop star’s estate has delivered another first: Jackson is now the only person, place o...
Updated : 2013.05.08 20:12
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Portraits by Alice Neel are on exhibit for the first time in Asia at Gallery Hyundai, Seoul. The exhibition “People and Places: Paintings by Alice Neel,” which began on May 2, features 15 portrait...
Updated : 2013.05.07 20:01
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Perched high on a hill in Pyeongchang-dong, Seoul, artist Youn Myeung-ro’s atelier overlooks the two greatest mountains in Seoul. Having the rocky Bukhan Mountain as a backdrop, Youn’s 35-year-old ...
Updated : 2013.05.06 19:53
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A scene from Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Damien Jalet’s “Babel,” the opener of this year’s International Modern Dance Festival in Seoul. (MODAFE 2013) The 2013 International Modern Dance Festival, ...
Updated : 2013.05.02 19:44
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ST. PETERSBURG (AFP) ―The hugely ambitious and well-connected director of Saint Petersburg’s Mariinsky Theatre will on Thursday oversee the opening of a controversial new ballet and opera house, one ...
Updated : 2013.05.01 20:32
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Chinese soloist Fang Meng-ying rehearses “Shimchung” in the Universal Ballet Company’s dance studio in Seoul. (UBC) Ballerina Fang Meng-ying arrived in Seoul from China at the age of 17, all by h...
Updated : 2013.05.01 20:30
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SHANGHAI (AFP) ― Shanghai’s contemporary art museum on Sunday opened a show featuring the works of American pop artist Andy Warhol, but without his iconic portraits of former Chinese leader Chairman ...
Updated : 2013.04.30 20:08
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NEW YORK (AP) ― The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Israel Museum in Jerusalem have jointly acquired a 15th-century illuminated Hebrew manuscript, they announced Monday. The Mishneh ...
Updated : 2013.04.30 20:07
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A computer-generated image of Kim Hyung-su’s media art installation that will be set up in front of Usher Hall, the main venue of the 2013 Edinburgh International Festival. (Kim Hyung-su) Art afici...
Updated : 2013.04.30 20:06
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Works of Korean contemporary artists are on exhibit in Hungary as part of a cultural promotion exhibition by the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea and the Korean Cultural Center in Hungary. ...
Updated : 2013.04.29 19:53