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Student from Daegu crowned Miss Korea

Jun 5, 2013

A 21-year-old college student from Daegu won Miss Korea 2013, the annual national beauty pageant, at Sejong Center for the Performing Arts in Seoul on Tuesday. Yoo Ye-bin, who is majoring in clothing and textiles at Gyeongsang National University, won the Miss Korea title after competing against a total of 20 finalists.“I would like to be someone who focuses on her inner beauty,” Yoo said after being crowned, bursting into tears.The winner said she had no plans to break into the entertainment in
Swiss museum to house work of photo great Burri

Jun 4, 2013

GENEVA (AFP) ― A huge trove of photographs taken over half a century by Switzerland’s Rene Burri, known for his iconic portrait of cigar-smoking revolutionary Che Guevara, is to be donated to a museum in his homeland, officials said Monday.The Lausanne-based Elysee Museum, a temple for photography buffs from around the globe, said it would become the long-term home for an estimated 30,000 of Burri’s works.“Rene Burri has been present wherever history plays out, and, with acumen, has borne witnes
‘American Idiot’ to get first Korean run

Jun 4, 2013

Broadway musical “American Idiot,” an adaptation of punk rock band Green Day’s seventh studio album of the same title, will be staged for the first time in Korea, according to its local promoters.The one-act, sung-through musical premiered on Broadway in 2010. Green Day did not appear in the production, though its songwriter and guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong occasionally played the role of St. Jimmy, one of its three young protagonists. The musical was nominated for a number of Tony Awards in
Painter of ‘The Scream’ finally recognized at home

Jun 3, 2013

OSLO (AFP) ― Long neglected at home, Edvard Munch is finally to get his due as Norway honors one of its greatest artists with the most comprehensive retrospective ever to mark the 150th anniversary of his birth.“The Scream,” of course, is there. So too are other treasures, including “Madonna,” “Vampire” and “The Dance of Life.”Open to the public from Sunday, the “Munch 150” exhibition offers an unprecedented look into his long artistic career, from his earliest works until his death in 1944.“The
Peonies in for the season

May 29, 2013

Florist Yu Seung-jae talks about unique charms of many brides’ favorite flower
Between dreams and reality

May 29, 2013

Contemporary photography exhibitions showcase surrealist images that blur the border between fantasy and reality
Japanese collector’s Korean folk craft on exhibit in Seoul

May 28, 2013

Muneyoshi Yanagi’s collection focuses on everyday items
A rare collaboration

May 28, 2013

Ballerina Kim Ji-young to dance to club music and pansori in collaboration with choreographer Kim Bo-ram
Artists seek global audience at Hong Kong’s Art Basel

May 26, 2013

HONG KONG (AFP) ― Having taken five Volkswagen Beetles and compressed them into spheres, artist Ichwan Noor was always going to grab attention at the inaugural Hong Kong Art Basel.Noor is known in his native Indonesia but is hoping the glittering, champagne-soaked art fair will give him further recognition beyond his home borders.Such are the opportunities that await emerging and lesser-known artists at the fair, which aims to highlight Hong Kong’s growing role as a global arts hub.Soon after th
Jazz dance musical to open Suwon Hwaseong Fortress Theatre Festival

May 23, 2013

Groups from seven foreign countries will join this year’s 17th Suwon Hwaseong Fortress Theatre Festival, which will be held from May 24-28. This year’s festival at the UNESCO World Heritage site is scheduled to feature performance art works from Spain, Australia, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Taiwan and Belgium. Since last year, the festival has invited local citizens to play various roles in different programs. And this year a group of amateur citizens will perform a dance musical featuring Edit
Art Basel highlights Hong Kong’s new status as arts hub

May 23, 2013

HONG KONG (AFP) ― The first Art Basel fair to be hosted by Hong Kong boasts a prestigious array of international art, highlighting the city’s new role as a global arts hub amid an explosion of personal wealth in mainland China.The four-day annual show is the world’s premier art fair and has until now only been held in Switzerland and the United States.On Wednesday wealthy VIPs flocked to the waterfront exhibition centre hosting the fair, which opens to the wider public on Thursday.Dressed in gla
Spanish flamenco’s coming home ... to India

May 23, 2013

MADRID (AFP) ― Spain’s oldest flamenco festival will visit India in 2014, retracing the origins of the classic Spanish musical form, organisers said Wednesday.The Cante de las Minas festival plans its first overseas event in March in Jodhpur, in Rajasthan state ― considered the home of the migrant gypsies from whom southern Spain’s flamenco culture sprang.“We were inspired by the search for the common origins of flamenco and the music of Rajasthan,” said Francisco Bernabe, director of the festiv
Chapman brothers show diabolical art in Hong Kong

May 22, 2013

HONG KONG (AFP) ― The Chapman brothers presented their latest epic installation featuring thousands of little figures in violent conflict Tuesday at the sidelines of Art Basel in Hong Kong, but dismissed the renowned fair as a “shop.”“The Sum of all Evil” by Jake and Dinos Chapman builds on previous works “Hell” (1999), and “Fucking Hell” (2008), which showcased innumerous miniature Nazis soldiers in various states of diabolical torment.Their ambitions to use themes of war, genocide, the apocaly
Wax and mirrors: Anish Kapoor opens exhibition in Berlin

May 21, 2013

BERLIN (AP) ― Conveyor belts hum quietly, towering over piles of dark red wax. A giant mauve object that looks like a deflating balloon sprawls and sags its way across three rooms. A dark pigment circle creates the illusion of a black hole opening up in the floor. And there are lots of mirrors: convex, concave, twisting and a painted “blood mirror.’’British-based artist Anish Kapoor on Friday presented his world of impressions, illusions and color in Berlin, where he has created a show for the c
Rhapsody in blue

May 20, 2013

James Turrell Museum at Wonju’s Hansol Museum shows artist’s four major works