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East Asia
Look Smithsonian
The LOOK Smithsonian exhibition is the first-ever exhibition held by the American Smithsonian Museum in Korea. You can see this astonishing photo exhibition at the Dongdaemun Design Plaza) until March 15th, 2017.The photographs of the exhibition capture meaningful moments as well as pictures with a story behind it. There are…
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Central Asia
Central Asia: 25 Years without Miracle
From September till December 2016 all five Central Asian countries- Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan – have lived in the special historical atmosphere: one after another they have celebrated 25th anniversary of independence. A quarter of century passed since they gained independence after the collapse of the former Soviet…
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East Asia
The “Klimt Inside” Exhibition
Gustav Klimt was born in Baumgarten, near Vienna in Austria-Hungary and is the second child of seven children. Klimt’s work is distinguished by the elegant gold or colored decoration, often of a phallic shape that conceals the most erotic positions of the drawings upon which many of his paintings are…
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East Asia
Korean Air Box Project 2016: Yangjiang Group
Korean Air Box Project is a long-term project that organizes displays of installation artworks by renowned artists from around the world in Seoul Box, the central exhibition space of MMCA, Seoul. Celebrating the experimental spirit of contemporary art and presenting a new vision for the future, the project chose Yangjiang…
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East Asia
Tamara de Lempicka exhibition in Seoul
Tamara de Lempicka (May 16, 1898 – March 18, 1980), born as Maria Gorska in Warsaw, Poland, was a Polish Art Deco painter. As an ‘Art Deco’ artist, Lempicka reformed the portrait style, more specifically, the role of subject as a liberated and independent woman. Her work is difficult to…
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East Asia
Images back to 1917 from 2017
Lee Sun-ho / The Korea Times At the dawn of the year 2017 it is intriguing to look back on the last century of human history to see how things have progressed since 1917, a typical common year of the snake, in contrast to 2017, the year of the rooster…
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East Asia
Alphonse Mucha-Pioneer of Modern Graphic Art
Alphonse Mucha (24 July 1860 – 14 July 1939) was a Czech Art Nouveau painter and decorative artist. Mucha was famous for his commercial posters, which had a broad audience, but he also worked in a variety of other media, including furniture, jewelry, and theatrical sets. He essentially worked in…
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East Asia
1 year later, sex slavery deal on shaky ground
The agreement between Korea and Japan over compensation for women forced into sexual slavery before and during World War II is now on shaky ground with the opposition calling for its renegotiation or abolishment. On the first anniversary of the deal, Wednesday, the opposition parties asked for Japan to make…
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East Asia
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East Asia
David LaChapelle – Inscape of Beauty
David LaChapelle is a well-known American photographer and a video artist. He is also known internationally for his outstanding talent on combining a unique hyper-realistic aesthetic with thorough social messages. You can recognize his commercial fashion portraits of celebrities as well as his signature blend of colorful, conceptual imagery, which…
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