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Dubai fair showcases success in art in 10th year

Mar 17, 2016

DUBAI (AFP) - Dubai on Wednesday opened its 10th annual art fair, an event that showcases the emirate‘s position as the region’s leader in an industry now helping it to rake in millions of dollars.　Billed as the leading contemporary show of its kind in the Middle East and North Africa, Art Dubai this year brings together 94 galleries from 40 countries featuring the works of 500 artists.　“We've been aware for some time for the role that the art fair plays in the local scene, and the way to which
Busan artist receives Sony photography prize

Mar 15, 2016

Busan-based photographer and graphic designer Lee Chang-hun has won the first prize of the Korea National Award, which is part of the 2016 Sony World Photography Awards.　Kim Tae-hoon and Kim Seok-jin won the second and third prizes respectively, in the Korean category of the world’s biggest photography competition. “Wonderland” by Lee Chang-hun (World Photography Organization)　The National Awards competition rewards the best single image taken by a local photographer. It is held in 60 countries
In Whitney exhibit, Poitras explores the art of surveillance

Mar 15, 2016

NEW YORK (AP) -- Here's a question you’ve likely never asked yourself: Can covert surveillance be beautiful?　But you might be asking it as you stroll through "Astro Noise," journalist and filmmaker Laura Poitras' exhibit at the Whitney Museum of American Art, in which images stemming from mass government surveillance are, in a number of cases, physically striking.　Take, for example, the patterns of bright greens, blues and oranges adorning the wall as one enters the exhibit. Seen from afar, they
Yoga class, craft beer brewing, lunch with artists

Mar 14, 2016

Art museums evolve to reach more people
Exhibition shows Korean journey toward universal suffrage

Mar 14, 2016

With the nation's 20th general election less than a month away, a retrospective exhibition is taking place that will guide visitors through the tumultuous history of South Korean democracy.The National Museum of Korean Contemporary History opened a special exhibition titled "Elections Foster Democracy" on Monday, with 300 relevant historical materials, including decades-old election posters and ballot boxes.Since the first general election took place on May 10, 1948, to establish an independent
[Herald interview] Opera director Umberto Fanni to attempt first world opera production

Mar 14, 2016

Italian pianist-turned-artistic director Umberto Fanni has his eyes set on premiering the world’s first global opera production. 　Once a touted concert pianist, Fanni is currently director general of the Royal Opera House in Muscat, Oman, where he is working on his latest large-scale international project, looking to bridge the gap between global opera performances. 　During his first visit to Korea, Fanni is consulting with the head of the Korea National Opera about the state-run opera’s partici
Five Bacon paintings reported stolen in Madrid

Mar 14, 2016

MADRID (AFP) - Five paintings by British artist Francis Bacon worth an estimated 30 million euros ($33.5 million) have been stolen from the Madrid home of their owner, El Pais reported Sunday.　Sources close to the investigation said the theft appeared to have been a highly professional operation that took place while the owner was away, with the perpetrators disabling the alarm system.　The thieves, who left no trace of their handiwork, had tracked the owner's movements to ensure he did not retu
Graffiti artwork of drowned Aylan highlights refugees’ plight

Mar 13, 2016

A huge graffiti image of toddler Aylan Kurdi -- pictures of whose dead body stirred global sympathy for migrants fleeing war and poverty -- confronts motorists, pedestrians and river traveler in Frankfurt.Thousands of weekday commuters using the Main river footpath and road bridge will see the 120-square-metre image of the three-year-old Syrian boy who drowned in September along with his mother and brother as they tried to reach Europe. The artwork on a peninsula about a 15-minute walk from the
[Eye] Melodious comeback of musical star

Mar 11, 2016

Jeon Soo-kyung overcomes vocal-threatening illness, continues musical pursuits
‘Henry IV’ returns to Seoul stage after 14 years

Mar 10, 2016

In honor of the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s death, the Seoul Metropolitan Theatre is opening its 2016 season with a production of “Henry IV: Part I and II.”　“We are bringing back ‘Henry IV’ to the Seoul stage for the first time in 14 years,” said the play’s director Kim Gwang-bo, during a press conference at Sejong Arts Center in Seoul on Wednesday. 　“The plot is about having an unrelenting appetite for power. I think it is a story that still fits and can be related to in today’s
‘Missing’ Rembrandt to go on show at global art fair: reports

Mar 10, 2016

THE HAGUE (AFP) - A recently discovered painting by 17th-century Dutch master Rembrandt will be the star attraction at one of the world’s leading art fairs opening this week, Dutch media reported Wednesday. 　“The Fainted Patient,” also known as “Smell,” a small paperback-sized panel believed to have been painted by Rembrandt in his late teens, was uncovered last September when it was put up for sale by a small auction house in New Jersey.　“It was peeling at the edges and covered with a layer of
Media Art Biennale to explore the future

Mar 8, 2016

This year’s Seoul International Media Art Biennale will encourage artists to look into the uncertainty of the future
Met adds modern jewel to famed New York art scene

Mar 8, 2016

NEW YORK (AFP) - New York is adding to its glittering portfolio of art museums with a new gallery dedicated to modern and contemporary art -- The Met Breuer, which opens with a retrospective of a little known Indian artist.　The gallery is housed in the modernist icon that Hungarian-born Bauhaus architect Marcel Breuer built in 1966 on Madison Avenue for the Whitney Museum of American Art, which last year moved downtown to a spanking new site.　When the Breuer opens to the public on March 18, it w
Korean-Russian artist who helped Pyongyang restore art academy after war

Mar 7, 2016

MMCA holds retrospective of Pen Varlen, Korean-Russian master of socialist realism
Korea to kick off dinosaur exposition in April

Mar 7, 2016

An international dinosaur exposition will kick off next month to display rare fossils and vivid models of the extinct animal species using state-of-the-art media technology, organizers said Monday.The Gyeongnam Goseong Dinosaur World Expo will begin on April 1 for a 73-day run in Goseong, located about 466 kilometers south of Seoul. Goseong is known for its quantity and variety of dinosaur fossils with more than 4,000 dinosaur footprints.More than 1,900 fossilized footprints of dinosaurs are loc