SEOUL, Jul. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — As workers at businesses with over 300 employees are now limited by law to a 52-hour work week, those in the performing arts and fine arts have high hopes for the future due to the potential increase in audience or spectator numbers as the new regulation is set free [...]
CHEONGJU, Sept. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — A monthlong international craft biennale will open in the South Korean city of Cheongju later this week under the theme of “Hands Plus Embrace.” The 2017 Cheongju Craft Biennale, the 10th of its kind, will run from Sept. 13 to Oct. 22 in that city and will feature some [...]
SEOUL, May 17 (Korea Bizwire) – Citizens have been taken aback by the horrific sight of a 17-meter-high, 100-meter-long array of worn out shoes that has been undergoing construction in front of Seoul Station over the past couple of days. As it turns out, the three-ton “installation art” was being arranged to celebrate the completion [...]
SEOUL, March 9 (Korea Bizwire) – The culture ministry said Thursday it will enact a bill aimed at protecting artists from political oppression and censorship as part of measures to prevent any future blacklisting of artists critical of the government. Any act that violates artistic freedom and discriminates against artists for political reasons will be [...]
PYEONGCHANG, Feb. 3 (Korea Bizwire) – Pyeongchang is hosting its third art biennale, after previous iterations in 2013 and 2015, to celebrate the PyeongChang Winter Olympics that will begin a year from now on February 9, 2018. This year’s biennale is titled “The Five Moons: Return of the Nameless and Unknown,” casting a new light on [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 28 (Korea Bizwire) – Gallerygoers who visit the Musee d’Orsay in Paris in the next four months won’t be able to appreciate Jean-Francois Millet’s masterpiece “Des Glaneuses,” or “The Gleaners” in English, as the 19th century painting, among other classics, will be on display at a museum in Seoul. The Hangaram Art Museum [...]
GWANGJU, Oct. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – Asia’s biggest biennial contemporary art festival under way in this southern city has received favorable reviews from foreign media, with more than 110,000 people visiting the event in the month after its opening, organizers said Wednesday. The 11th Gwangju Biennale started its 66-day march for democracy, human rights and [...]
SEOUL, July 5 (Korea Bizwire) – Every summer on the grounds of the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA) a uniquely-formed sculpture pops up. These sculptures are winners of the ‘Young Architects Program’ (YAP), a program co-hosted by the MMCA and New York’s MoMA (Museum of Modern Art). This year, architect Shin Hyeong-chul had [...]
SEOUL, June 27 (Korea Bizwire) – Seoul’s Sejong Center, along with the Joan Miró Mallorca Foundation, is hosting an exhibition of works by Joan Miró, an internationally acclaimed Spanish painter, sculptor, and ceramicist from Barcelona. The exhibition, titled ‘Miró In Mallorca. A Wild Spirit’, is by far the largest in terms of size among any other [...]
SEOUL, June 21 (Korea Bizwire) – Street artist Thierry Guetta, also known as Mr. Brainwash, is hosting his first exhibition in Korea titled ‘Life is Beautiful’. “Everybody only gets one life, and I wanted to portray the beauty of life through my works,” said the French-born artist during a press conference on Monday. The exhibition was [...]