The Korea Herald

2 exciting premieres enliven New York ballet season

Jul 10, 2013

NEW YORK (AP) ― It may be sweltering summer out there, but the spring ballet season has just officially ended in New York, with the last frothy performances of “The Sleeping Beauty’’ at American Ballet Theater. And while dance fans often seek out the same classics, again and again, this season’s highlights included brand new productions by two of the most exciting choreographers working today: Alexei Ratmansky at ABT and soloist Justin Peck at NYCB. A look back at these and other standout moment
Vladimir Urin: Theater visionary with nerves of steel

Jul 10, 2013

MOSCOW (AFP) ― Vladimir Urin, the man who was appointed Tuesday as the new Bolshoi Theatre director, is a respected manager who turned a small obscure music theater called Stanislavsky into a must-stop venue for the art scene.The 66-year-old now faces an uphill battle after being placed at the helm of Russia’s historic theater and charged with rescuing its reputation following a string of scandals and infighting of the vast troupe.Urin won respect from colleagues by quietly revamping Moscow’s 90
Like father, like son in art

Jul 10, 2013

Parents of artists become collaborators in unique project at Artsonje Center
National troupes unveil new programs

Jul 9, 2013

After the first successful ‘repertoire season,’ seven state-run troupes to present 63 works in the second year
Art exhibition pays tribute to baseball hero Park Chan-ho

Jul 9, 2013

Park Chan-ho, the first South Korean baseball player to play in Major League Baseball in the U.S., was hailed as a hero during the gloomy days of the Asian economic crisis in the late 1990s. Despite retiring last year, Park still remains a sensational figure in the history of Korean baseball, having won 124 games in the majors during his 19-year professional baseball career.A new art exhibition at Seoul Museum pays tribute to the baseball hero, displaying his game-winning baseballs, uniforms, gl
Unlikely partners: Artworks used to create slush funds

Jul 8, 2013

Art transactions have become a way of creating secret funds, exploiting the practice of keeping the names of buyers and sellers hidden
Professor discovers new use for laser in art world

Jul 8, 2013

DURHAM, North Carolina (AP) ― A U.S. professor who developed a laser to study melanoma has discovered a new use for it: uncovering what’s underneath artwork without damaging the pieces.Dr. Warren S. Warren was at the National Gallery in London, looking at an exhibit on art forgeries, when he realized that the art world used imaging technologies that were 30 or 40 years old. So he began investigating whether lasers could be used to safely uncover the mysteries underneath layers of paint.So far, t
Drawing traces of light and time

Jul 8, 2013

Gallery DOS presents a solo exhibition of artist Choi Eun-hyea this week as part of the gallery’s special exhibitions for up-and-coming artists it selected for this year. Choi, one of the five selected artists, explores a subject that is rarely dealt with in painting ― the journey of light. Light, which largely remained an auxiliary element determining the tone of paintings, has emerged as an independent subject in paintings as contemporary artists explore diverse subjects for their works. The a
El Greco sets new record at London auction

Jul 4, 2013

LONDON (AFP) ― El Greco’s 400 year-old painting “Saint Dominic in Prayer” on Wednesday broke the record for a Spanish Old Master, selling at a London auction for 9.1 million pounds ($14,000,000). The painting was one of two El Greco works on sale at the sale, said Alex Bell, worldwide head of Sotheby’s Old Master Paintings.It went under the hammer following a “tenacious” battle between bidders, he added.The painting represents the 13th-century founder of the Dominican order kneeling and praying
Embassy gives sneak preview of Aussie artist David Hart’s exhibition

Jul 4, 2013

Iconic Australian artist David Hart’s highly collectable masterworks and fine art reproductions were on display last week at the Australian Embassy, giving viewers a taste of his upcoming exhibition in September. For Hart, Korea was “the perfect place to launch the David Hart brand internationally” due to its strong economic and cultural platform and its commitment to the arts. “I would have loved to be there with you all today but I’m here in the studio working hard on my Korea exhibition,” Ha
Spanish modernism in spotlight this summer

Jul 4, 2013

Two exhibitions in Korea explore Spanish modern, contemporary art through Pablo Picasso, Joan Miro, Salvador Dali and more
JYJ‘s Kim to prevail in musical scenes for the second half

Jul 4, 2013

“Scarlet Pimpernel,” “High School Musical,” “Elizabeth,” “Chicago,” and many more are set to raise their curtains on South Korea’s musical stages in the latter half of 2013.In a bid to forecast which musicals and actors would advance, The Herald Business, a sister paper of The Korea Herald, conducted a 10-day survey from June 21-30 about the upcoming musicals on 1,891 members of Interpark’s Play DB, a performance arts Web portal.Kim Jun-soo, a member of music group JYJ, dominated the charts.Out
With money and fame, Takashi Murakami has it all

Jul 3, 2013

Prominent contemporary artist holds ‘petite’ retrospective at Plateau, Samsung Museum of Art, with new works
Korean musicals venture overseas

Jul 2, 2013

Daehangno’s ‘Finding Mr. Destiny’ becomes first musical to be performed in Korea, Japan, China
Art lovers can now visit New York’s Met every day

Jul 2, 2013

NEW YORK (AFP) ― Art lovers can now visit New York’s famed Metropolitan museum every day of the week after the management dropped a policy of being closed on Mondays.The Met, which welcomed a record-breaking 6.28 million visitors last year, had closed its doors on Mondays for more than 40 years.“Art is a 7-day-a-week passion, and we want the Met to be accessible whenever visitors have the urge to experience this great museum,” Met director Thomas Campbell said in a statement.The change announced