Public Lecture Series
Post-Minjung and Postmodern: Transition of Korean Art in the Age of Democratization
Public Lecture By Dr. Jiyeon Kim, Ph.D. Art Historian Apgujeong-dong: Utopia/Distopia Exhibition catalogue, Seoul: Hyeonsil munhwa yeongu, 1992 Credit: Hyeonsil Munhwa (photograph image from Yeon Shim Chung eds, Korean Art from 1953: Collision, Innovation, Interaction, London: Phaidon, 2020, p..183.) Wednesday, September 30, 2020 @ Korean Cultural Center NY Official Youtube Channel *Free admission As democratization and globalization transformed Korean society, Korean art scenes underwent critical changes in the late 1980s. Both mainstream artists who mostly worked in ...
The Global Village: Experimental art in South Korea, 1960s and 1970s
By Dr. Kyung An Assistant Curator, Asian Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York Wednesday, December 19, 2019 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM Korean Cultural Center(460 Park Avenue, 6th Floor, NYC) *Free admission (c) LEE SEUNG TAEK, WIND- FOLK AMUSEMENT, 1971 Performance with Fabric This lecture considers how the notion of “experiment” emerged and transformed vis-à-vis rapidly changing socio-political and material conditions in Korea during the late 1960s and early 1970s. During this ...
Do Ho Suh: From Sculpture to Film
Public Lecture by Paul Laster New York Desk Editor at ArtAsiaPacific and a Contributing Editor at Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art and artBahrain Wednesday, November 13th, 2019 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM Korean Cultural Center(460 Park Avenue, 6th Floor, NYC) *Free admission Video still from Do Ho Suh’s Robin Hood Gardens, Woolmore Street, London E14 0HG, 2018 © the artist, courtesy Lehmann Maupin New York, Hong Kong and Seoul, and Victoria Miro, London / Venice ...
Kwang Young Chun: Aggregation
Public Lecture by Joan Cummins Lisa and Bernard Selz Senior curator of Asian Art at the BrooklynnMuseum Wednesday, October 30th, 2019 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM Korean Cultural Center(460 Park Avenue, 6th Floor, NYC) *Free admission Kwang Young Chun, Aggregation 17 - NV089, 2017 Mixed media with Korean mulberry paper, Courtesy of ART MORA GALLERY This piece will be on view at Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art during 8/24/2019 - 6/7/2020 Artist Kwang ...
Radical Encounters and Reflections on the Work of Kimsooja
Kimsooja, To Breathe: Invisible Mirror/Invisible Needle (2005), 10:01 loop, sound from Kimsooja's The Weaving Factory (2004) voice performance, 9:52 loop. Installation view at Teatro La Fenice, Venice, 2005. Photo by Luca Campigotto. Courtesy of The Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation and Kimsooja Studio. By Michelle Yun Senior Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Asia Society Museum Wednesday, November 28th, 2018, at 6:30 - 8:00 PM Korean Cultural Center New York 460 Park Avenue, Floor ...
Shaman Paintings and Old Shaman of Korea
“with the permission of the Gahoe Museum” By Laurel Kendall, Ph. D. Chair of the Division of Anthropology at the American Museum of Natural History Wednesday, October 24, 2018, at 6:30 - 8:00 PM Korean Cultural Center New York 460 Park Avenue (57th Street), Floor 6, New York, NY 10022 Free admission Dr. Laurel Kendall explores the divine nature of Korean shaman paintings in her book, God ...
From Fluxus to Video Art: The Art Couple – Nam June Paik and Shigeko Kubota
Tom Haar, Shigeko Kubota and Name June Paik, 1974 ©Tom Haar By Midori Yoshimoto, Ph. D. Associate Professor of art history and gallery director at New Jersey City University Wednesday, September 26, 2018, at 6:30 - 8:00 PM Korean Cultural Center New York 460 Park Avenue, Floor 6, New York, NY 10022 Free admission; refreshments provided In Germany, in 1962, South-Korean born composer/artist, Nam June Paik gained notoriety ...
The Beginning of Minjung Art: On “Reality and Utterance” and South Korean Art in the 1970s and 1980s
O Yoon, Marketing I—Hell Painting (1980), Mixed media on canvas, 131 x 162 cm By Sohl Lee Assistant Professor in the Department of Art History at the State University of New York at Stony Brook Wednesday, November 29, 2017, at 6:30 - 8:00 PM Korean Cultural Center New York 460 Park Avenue, Floor 6, New York, NY 10022 Free admission; refreshments provided Minjung art (or “people’s art”) emerged alongside ...
Family, Status, and individuality in Early Korean Photography
Korean Man and Three Girls, late 19th century, albumen print, Peabody Essex Museum By Jiyeon Kim Project Specialist at Peabody Essex Museum, MA Wednesday, October 25, 2017, at 6:30 - 8:00 PM Korean Cultural Center New York 460 Park Avenue, Floor 6, New York, NY 10022 Free admission refreshments provided In the Joseon Dynasty (1392-1910), representation of individual and social identity took limited forms and channels, mostly the official ...
The Art of the Inner Quarters
Rank badge (hyungbae) with double cranes for first- to third-rank civil official. Korean, Joseon dynasty (1392-1910). Silk; embroidered. 20.8 cm (width) x 23.2 cm (height). The Chung Young Yang Embroidery Museum, Seoul. By Lee Talbot Curator of Eastern Hemisphere Collections at The George Washington University Museum and the Textile Museum Wednesday, September 27, 2017 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM Korean Cultural Center NY, 460 Park Avenue (57th Street), 6th ...
