The Korea Herald

Satellite man

Jan 23, 2015

Artist Song Ho-jun, the world’s first person to make and launch his own satellite, talks about science and art
Anne Hathaway to star in N.Y. drone play

Jan 22, 2015

NEW YORK (AFP) ― Oscar-winning Hollywood actress Anne Hathaway is to star in a New York play about an ace fighter pilot tasked with flying U.S. drones in Afghanistan from an Air Force trailer.The Public Theater in Manhattan’s trendy East Village said the production of “Grounded” would run from April 7 to May 17, and be directed by the award-winning Julie Taymor.Written by U.S. playwright George Brant, the one-woman drama tells the story of a fighter pilot reassigned to 12-hour shifts flying remo
Keeping Nam June Paik’s legacy alive

Jan 20, 2015

Paik’s technical assistant recalls days with the video art pioneer in time for 9th anniversary of his passing
Cuban art in spotlight amid U.S. detente

Jan 18, 2015

HAVANA (AFP) ― In Juan Roberto Diago’s studio at his remodeled 1920s house, five Americans scrutinized the Cuban artist’s work, wearing baseball caps and sunglasses.“That’s a piece I bought last time I was here,” said Robert Penta, a 33-year old attorney, pointing at a red and brown canvas leaning against the wall.It’s the second time in as many months that this group from Louisville, Kentucky, has traveled to Cuba on a special art license.They wasted no time following the historic rapprochement
Millet works reveal turning point in art

Jan 15, 2015

Four masterpieces of 19th-century French painter featured in visiting exhibition of Boston Museum treasures
France’s star architect snubs VIP concert hall opening

Jan 15, 2015

PARIS (AFP) ― A new and hugely expensive Paris concert hall will get its VIP opening late Wednesday, but its star architect, Jean Nouvel, is snubbing the event because he says it is not yet ready.“The Philharmonie is opening too early,” Nouvel, who in 2008 won architecture’s top global award, the Pritzker Prize, stormed in a long complaint printed by Le Monde newspaper.The gala opening, in a once gritty district of northeast Paris that is rapidly gentrifying, is to attract a Who’s Who of France’
Exploitation at the ends of the Earth

Jan 12, 2015

Artist Han Sung-pil portrays remains of once-flourishing mining and whaling out posts in the Arctic and Antarctica
Steve Barakatt to present symphony with Herald Phil

Jan 11, 2015

New Age pianist and composer Steve Barakatt will present his largest production ― symphony “Ad Vitam Aeternam” ― to Seoul audiences at a concert in March.Written in 16 movements for piano and a full-sized orchestra, the Canadian artist’s first symphonic composition is a musical journey through different stages of life and various aspects of the human condition ― from the physiological to the psychological, emotional and spiritual. The upcoming concert will also feature “Lullaby,” which Barakatt
Young artists critique modern life

Jan 7, 2015

MMCA presents experimental works of young artists that touch on social ironies
Korean art: What to look for in 2015

Jan 5, 2015

North Korea, overlooked artists, elegant antiquities among the highlights of art exhibits this year
Lee Jung-seop’s silver foil drawings return

Jan 1, 2015

Personal life of legendary painter is revealed in private letters to his family
A journey through the life of violinist Cho Jin-joo

Jan 1, 2015

The beginning, youth, searching and reminiscing ― these are the four stages of life that the young up-and-coming violinist Cho Jin-joo is looking to explore in her upcoming solo concert series as a Kumho Art Hall resident artist.The 26-year-old will perform four solo concerts this year, with each concert dedicated to one of the aforementioned stages of life. From her trials and tribulations after moving to the States to develop her musical gifts, to the pangs of youth, joys of love and reminisce
Stage, screen actor Herrmann dies at 71

Jan 1, 2015

Edward Herrmann, the towering, melodious-voiced actor who brought Franklin D. Roosevelt to life in films and documentaries, won a Tony Award and charmed audiences as the stuffy dad on TV’s “Gilmore Girls,” died Wednesday. He was 71. Herrmann died at Memorial Sloan Kettering Hospital of brain cancer, his son, Rory Herrmann said. The actor, who had been hospitalized for several weeks, was surrounded by family members including his wife, Star, and his three children, his son said.“He was full of kn
Guitarist doesn’t miss day of Vegas Cirque work

Dec 28, 2014

LAS VEGAS (AP) ― It’s easy to miss Bruce Rickerd during the “Mystere” show at Treasure Island especially when there’s a man balancing upside-down on the foot of another, or a giant inflatable snail emerging from the massive moving stage or the gasp-inducing drops from acrobats above. But he’s there ― up high on the right or rather, stage left ― playing guitar in just about the same place he’s been for every one of the 10,000 shows come Saturday in the 21-year history of “Mystere” as he and the r
[Herald Review] Reliving adolescent bliss with ‘The Nutcracker’

Dec 28, 2014

While for some, the holiday season is about bundling up by a crackling fire, bellowing out some of Irving Berlin’s most cherished carols or guzzling down a cold cup of hard eggnog, for others it’s not quite complete without the sounds of whimsical percussion bells and the air of innocence in one of the ballet world’s most beloved holiday tales ― “The Nutcracker.”Saturated in festive tradition and Christmas nostalgia, the century-old production continues to spread cheer all around and remains a m