SEOUL, July 21 (Korea Bizwire) — The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA) on Tuesday announced two experimental art projects that will be put on display under the inaugural Project Hashtag program, the museum’s art exhibit-sponsorship project co-founded with Hyundai Motor Co. The Project Hashtag 2020 exhibition will showcase works from two teams [...]
SEOUL, May 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Lee Hyo-jin, a 30-year-old job seeker, quietly kept her gaze on a masterpiece by South Korean monochrome painter Lee Ufan inside an exhibition hall at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art’s (MMCA) Seoul branch on Thursday. It was her first artistic expedition after an over two-month coronavirus [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — What started as a humble national art museum with a four-person staff in the backyard of the Gyeongbok royal palace in central Seoul in 1969 has grown into arguably the biggest art space in Asia half a century later. Now in possession of more than 8,000 art pieces, the [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Measuring 18.5 meters in height and 11 m in diameter, a massive pagoda of TV monitors has been the symbol of South Korea’s National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA) in Gwacheon, south of Seoul, and the quintessence of Korean-American artist Paik Nam-june’s (1932-2006) pioneering video art career. [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean museum on Friday rejected the results of a French inspection that concluded one of its most famed artworks is fake. The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA) argued in a statement that the French art experts Lumiere Technology drew the conclusion based on a [...]