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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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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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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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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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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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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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‘The Great Graffiti exhibition’
Seoul Arts Center and Minoa Art Asset are presenting “The Great Graffiti exhibition” which will stick around until February 26th of 2017 at the Seoul Calligraphy Art Museum. This is the first graffiti museum show in Korea at Seoul Calligraphy Art Museum. Graffiti started from vandalism, which means in a…
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Lifestyle Show ‘2017 Daegu Fashion Fair’
Lifestyle Show ‘2017 Daegu Fashion Fair’ is held on March 8th 2017. The Korea Fashion Industry Research Institute (HanPae Won) plans to hold the ‘2017 Daegu Fashion Fair’, a lifestyle fashion trade show, from March 8th to 10th next year at the Daegu EXCO. The fair will be held with…
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Mari Kim’s solo exhibition ‘La Vie Parisienne’
You might want to make a quick visit near Cheongdam’s Dosan Park, to Gallery 0914. With the 130 Year Friendship Korea-France event ending, Mari Kim’s solo exhibition ‘La Vie Parisienne’ will be opening. The title of the exhibition, ‘La Vie Parisienne’, which means the life of Parisian, is based on…
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