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The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea presents a bold selection of young Korean artists at the regular exhibition introducing young talent. In an effort to break away from the institutional ...
Updated : 2013.03.14 19:46
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In March of 2000, Kim Joo-won was watching French ballet dancer Sylvie Guillem perform at the Royal Opera House in London. Kim, who was the Korean National Ballet’s prima ballerina at the time, was ...
Updated : 2013.03.14 19:46
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The warm spring breeze and flowers put people in a good mood and perhaps evoke thoughts of spring romance. Fittingly, a love-themed art exhibition is opening at Seoul Museum on March 14, or White Da...
Updated : 2013.03.13 19:53
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A scene from Romeo Castellucci’s “On the Concept of the Face, Regarding the Son of God” (Festival Bo:m) A devoted son takes care of his aging, ill father. He clears his father’s mess, strips him...
Updated : 2013.03.13 19:51
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A combo of handout pictures received on Monday from The Bowse Museum shows Sir Anthony Van Dyck’s painting of Olivia Boteler Porter, lady-in-waiting to Henrietta Maria, the wife of English king Char...
Updated : 2013.03.12 20:13
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Following is part of a series exploring unique museums, collections and the passionate collectors behind them. ― Ed. Starting an art collection is not an easy task. It takes thorough research and s...
Updated : 2013.03.12 20:12
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Universal Ballet Company’s principals Hwang Hye-min and Ohm Jae-yong have been dancing together for some 10 years, as Romeo and Juliet, Onegin and Tatyana, and Albrecht and Giselle. The two, famous...
Updated : 2013.03.10 20:17
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Ballet dancer Kang Ye-na enjoyed drawing cartoons while growing up, always featuring dancers as her protagonists. But she never knew she’d be designing ballet leotards decades later. The 39-year-ol...
Updated : 2013.03.06 20:34
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MONTREAL (AFP) ― A German museum for the first time on Tuesday returned a painting despoiled by the Nazis to the estate of a late German Jewish art dealer. Concordia University in Montreal, acting ...
Updated : 2013.03.06 20:28
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“Wine Garden; Holy Blood” (2012) by Han Sung-pil. (Arario Gallery) The question viewers ask in front of artist Han Sung-pil’s photographs and video works is simple ― is it real or fake? In Han’...
Updated : 2013.03.06 20:27
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Visitors to contemporary art exhibitions are often left feeling clueless at the end of a viewing. Unless guided tours are offered, a majority of them just remember bits of images that seem impressive...
Updated : 2013.03.05 20:20
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Sungkok Art Museum has taken up the role of showcasing regional art and artists that have largely escaped public interest for years. “Major galleries paid greater interest to regional arts in the 1...
Updated : 2013.03.04 19:36
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NEW YORK (AFP) ― New York is famously photogenic, but photographer Brandon Stanton is not interested in the skyscrapers, bridges or famous yellow cabs. It is New Yorkers themselves he wants to captur...
Updated : 2013.03.04 19:36
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For architects, it is like a huge, automated machine. For dancers and performers, it’s where they present their works and meet the audience. And for the rest of us, it is a place to enjoy stage ente...
Updated : 2013.03.04 19:36
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NEW YORK (AFP) ― Classical Chinese painters were masters of rocky mountains, but Liu Dan, one of a group of contemporary artists putting a new twist on a thousand-year tradition, sticks with just the...
Updated : 2013.03.03 20:10
