Photographer Kim Nyung-man captures major events in book ‘Portrait of Times’

Robert Moore’s collection to be auctioned at Christie’s next month

Kim Ji-young and Kim Joo-won to star in restaging of Ahn Sung-soo’s 2000 piece

This year is Korea’s Universal Ballet Company’s 30th anniversary, and the troupe is celebrating it with a bang.The company is throwing a special gala performance this week, featuring its star dancers. Titled “Thank You!,” the program consists of scenes from some of the troupe’s most successful repertoires including “La Bayadere,” “Onegin,” “Sleeping Beauty” and “Don Quixote.”“We weren’t sure how much the troupe could accomplish in a country where many people did not know about ballet 30 years ag

Acclaimed British artist showcases his portrayal of Seoul passers-by, moving images on LED panels and 3-D head sculptures in his solo exhibition

Korean art auction market, still in its infancy, struggles to recover as both sales and prices fall

LOS ANGELES (AFP) ― Irish rock veterans U2 will play their Oscar-nominated song “Ordinary Love” from the movie “Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom” at this year’s Academy Awards, organizers announced Wednesday.The March 2 performance at the Dolby Theater in Hollywood will be the first time U2 has played the song live, said Craig Zadan and Neil Meron, producers of the 86th Academy Awards. The tune is among four nominees for best original song along with “Happy” from “Despicable Me 2,” “Let It Go” from

Korea’s contemporary art museum holds archive exhibition devoted to the history of photography and the museum with the opening of the digital library

Installation artist Koo Hyun-mo presents wooden installations inspired by his childhood home in Sajik-dong

ROME (AFP) ― Striking, skeletal forms of Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti are juxtaposed with corpulent neo-classical and baroque Italian masterpieces in a new exhibition in Rome exploring the evocative power of the human body. Forty Giacometti gems, including his famous spindly “Walking Man” in bronze, have been scattered around the permanent collection at the Villa Borghese Gallery in the Italian capital, dotted in among classics such as Bernini’s “David” or Canova’s “Pauline Borghese.” The c

Gallery Hyundai showcases paintings and drawings on paper by painting masters of modern Korean art

NEW YORK (AFP) ― The brutal aftermath of the once euphoric Egyptian revolution is on stark display in a powerful New York exhibition that lays bare grief, death and shattered hopes.Three years after protests first erupted across the Arab world, ultimately deposing autocratic rulers in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and Yemen, the hopes of millions now lie stagnant or in tatters.In Egypt, Iranian-American artist Shirin Neshat witnessed firsthand the evolution as she traveled between New York and Cairo mak

Ahn Seung-il exhibition to look at 20 years of work on peninsula’s highest peak

HONG KONG (AFP) ― Best known as a celebrity restaurateur whose 1960s mission to change Western attitudes to Chinese food has lasted nearly 50 years, Michael Chow is also a trained painter who, until recently, had not picked up his brushes for decades.Mr. Chow restaurants became glamorous centers for Swinging London, New York’s disco days and today’s Hollywood and art world elite. The man behind them has unveiled his first solo exhibition in Asia, a show he says reflects his complicated relations

Photographer Lee Jung-jin holds a solo exhibition in Seoul showcasing images of ordinary objects printed on mulberry paper