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PARIS (AFP) ― A smash-hit Paris exhibition of works by U.S. artist Edward Hopper closed Sunday after attracting more than 780,000 visitors in less than four months. Demand was so feverish that the G...
Updated : 2013.02.04 18:49
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The cover of the score of “Die Braut von Korea” The Korean Bride), a 1897 ballet music composed by Austrian composer Josef Bayer (1852-1913). The Korean flag, indicated with a circle, is seen above...
Updated : 2013.02.04 18:48
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MOSCOW (AFP) ― Russia’s Bolshoi ballet Friday postponed one of its most eagerly anticipated premieres of the year, a new version of Igor Stravinsky’s “The Rite of Spring,” after the acid attack on it...
Updated : 2013.02.03 19:52
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“A Nude” by Kim Heung-su, 1980. (Lotte Gallery) Nude paintings were banned from public exhibition and publication in the early days of modern Korea: When a daily newspaper ran a story of a Korean ...
Updated : 2013.02.03 19:50
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According to late American critic Susan Sontag, dancers live by the “standard of perfection.” “Dance demands a degree of service greater than in any other performing art, or sport,” she wrote in...
Updated : 2013.01.31 20:01
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Korean-Japanese director and playwright Chong Wishing is in Seoul to showcase his period drama set in colonial Korea in the 1920s, starring local TV and film actor Cha Seung-won in the leading role. ...
Updated : 2013.01.31 19:47
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This computer-generated image shows the completed Seoul branch of National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea, which is currently under construction. (NMOCA) The Korean National Museum of Contemporar...
Updated : 2013.01.30 20:21
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Seoul Arts Center’s CJ Towol Theater, before (top) and after the renovation (bottom).(SAC) Seoul Arts Center’s newly renovated CJ Towol Theater is reopening next month, with the premiere of CJ E&M...
Updated : 2013.01.30 20:20
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“Petits Bonbons Wrapping Vert.” (Opera Gallery) With Valentine’s Day just two weeks away, Opera Gallery Seoul is showcasing love-themed artwork during the month of February. The Valentine’s Day...
Updated : 2013.01.29 19:45
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Original painting of Lee Jung-seob’s “Fish and a Kid” An art scandal involving fake paintings by two great Korean modern artists came to an end as the court ruled them to be forgeries last week. ...
Updated : 2013.01.28 19:37
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Kim Bok-hee Kim Bok-hee, the current director of the Dance Association of Korea, has been reelected to the same position, the organization announced Sunday. After earning a master’s degree in danc...
Updated : 2013.01.28 19:33
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What makes “Shear Madness” ― one of the longest-running plays in the world ― interesting is arguably its ending with almost-limitless possibilities. The crime drama’s ending is spontaneous, req...
Updated : 2013.01.27 19:12
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The art of the Czech Republic is less well known than its literature or music, but the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea and the National Gallery in Prague have worked together to break the ...
Updated : 2013.01.27 19:11
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Artist Sa Suk-won, born and raised in Seoul, has vivid memories of the city in which he grew up. In the middle of the pro-democracy protests in May 1980, Sa, who was an art college student, hid at a...
Updated : 2013.01.23 20:07
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“Winged Victory of Samothrace.” (Muse du Louvre) PARIS (AFP) ― The Louvre is in September to restore one of its most iconic works, the “Winged Victory of Samothrace” statue depicting the Greek ...
Updated : 2013.01.22 19:00
