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Fri, September 29, 2023 | 08:39

Veteran stage actor slams Son Suk-ku over likening stage acting to 'fake acting'

Veteran stage actor slams Son Suk-ku over likening stage acting to 'fake acting'

Veteran actor Nam Myeong-ryeol criticized actor Son Suk-ku for making controversial comments about stage directors instructing actors to do “fake acting” onstage.

Kwak Yeon-soo | 2023-07-16 15:30

From 'Let Me Fly' to 'Les Miserables,' acclaimed musicals to hit stage this year

From 'Let Me Fly' to 'Les Miserables,' acclaimed musicals to hit stage this year

A wide variety of musicals will be presented in Korea this year, including “Let Me Fly" that marks the musical debut of high-profile actor Park Bo-gum.

Dong Sun-hwa | 2023-07-13 14:48

Bulgari's Serpenti meets spirited women artists in Seoul

Bulgari's Serpenti meets spirited women artists in Seoul

It was 1948 when the image of a coiled snake first slithered into the design of a Bulgari watch. Since then, for over seven decades, the Italian luxury fashion house has put one distinctive spin on the reptile after another, embracing the motif in its endless product line of bracelets, rings, handbags and necklaces.

Park Han-sol | 2023-07-13 08:35

From Olympic cauldron to stairway maze: Boundary-pushing architect Thomas Heatherwick on building with 'soulfulness'

From Olympic cauldron to stairway maze: Boundary-pushing architect Thomas Heatherwick on building with 'soulfulness'

A honeycomb-like maze of staircases in New York City winds up 46 meters into the air, bringing to life a monumental version of “a stairway to nowhere.” A pavilion building in Shanghai is enveloped in tens of thousands of thin acrylic rods swaying in the wind - much like a porcupine's prickly quills.

Park Han-sol | 2023-07-10 16:08

Original props from Indiana Jones movie on display in Seoul

Original props from Indiana Jones movie on display in Seoul

An assemblage of original props from the Indiana Jones franchise have been brought together at a mini-exhibit in Seoul to celebrate the release of “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.”

Park Han-sol | 2023-07-09 15:33

Whitestone Gallery to become first Japanese art dealer to open space in Seoul

Whitestone Gallery to become first Japanese art dealer to open space in Seoul

Tokyo-headquartered Whitestone Gallery, one of the major art dealers based in Asia, announced the scheduled opening of its new space in Seoul on Sept. 2, in time for Frieze and Kiaf Seoul.

Park Han-sol | 2023-07-07 08:29

91-year-old Chung Sang-hwa's paintings are products of 'foolishly endless' repetition

91-year-old Chung Sang-hwa's paintings are products of 'foolishly endless' repetition

To the nonagenarian “dansaekhwa” (monochrome painting) master Chung Sang-hwa, it is the “foolishly endless repetition of ripping off and filling in” layers of clay and paint on canvas that brings his signature “grid” paintings to life.

Park Han-sol | 2023-07-06 12:19

Gwangju Biennale 2024 to use 'pansori' as gateway to explore today's changing 'spatial conditions'

Gwangju Biennale 2024 to use 'pansori' as gateway to explore today's changing 'spatial conditions'

Next year's edition of the Gwangju Biennale will use “pansori,” a Korean musical tradition of storytelling featuring vocals and arrhythmic drumming, as a gateway to the festival's journey into human relation to contemporary space, according to artistic director Nicolas Bourriaud.

Park Han-sol | 2023-06-30 16:35

How provocateurs of Korean experimental art wrestled with rapid modernization, authoritarian state

How provocateurs of Korean experimental art wrestled with rapid modernization, authoritarian state

The experimental art scene that struck post-war Korea in the 1960s and 1970s like a meteorite is a buried chapter of history that deserves to be revisited - or, for most of the world, newly discovered.

Park Han-sol | 2023-06-29 15:44

A closer look at Jung Kang-ja, female trailblazer in Korean experimental art

[INTERVIEW] Kwon Nyung-ho's journey toward abstraction as Paris-based Korean painter

INTERVIEWKwon Nyung-ho's journey toward abstraction as Paris-based Korean painter

It was 1981 when a 25-year-old Kwon Nyung-ho, filled with a pocketful of dreams and desires to see the celebrated works of Old Masters in person, set foot on European soil for the very first time in his life.

Park Han-sol | 2023-06-27 11:03

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