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Plus, the Loewe Foundation Craft Prize winner: a basket made with horsehair
The global fair brand will bring an international flavour to the Korean capital when it debuts this September, but exact terms of its partnership with the Kiaf fair remain unclear
At least four Russian institutions are thought to have loaned the works, including the Nizhny Novgorod State Art Museum and the Ekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts
Against a backdrop of misogynistic rhetoric, President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol promises to create half a million jobs in the Korean cultural industry
A museum in Yekaterinburg sent 63 pieces to a show on the Russian avant-garde at the Sejong Center for the Performing Arts in Seoul—and now wants them back
Two bronze Buddha statues are likely to make records for cultural artefacts at auction in Korea
Currently the executive director of Hyundai gallery, Lee says there is a “long history of collecting culture” in the South Korean capital
With Frieze preparing a new Seoul fair, and a growing roster of galleries, the city could steal Hong Kong’s crown
Lee Kun-hee, the Samsung Electronics chairman who died in October, leaves collection worth $2.2bn, including works by Monet, Dali and Chagall
The biennial will highlight the conflicting narratives of the deadly uprising that paved the way for democracy
Opening next month, the new space will include a sculpture garden on a roof terrace
The Bangtan Boys musician was recognised for donating $90,400 to the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Seoul last September
Some art institutions foresee a rolling series of partial lockdowns in future
Museums in South Korea and Hong Kong have also started reopening after coronavirus lockdowns
Although the country’s museums have been closed since February, its commercial galleries were allowed to remain open—and sales have continued at a steady pace
Visitor numbers at some of the world’s most popular art venues have nosedived and uncertainty for the future remains
Curators at French museum plan to launch video game centred on contemporary art while its Shanghai satellite reopens to the public
Shanghai's Power Station of Art and Shanghai Museum welcomed visitors today after China's tough measures helped curb the spread of the disease
The curator of the global public art collaboration Connect, BTS suggests that new definitions of art are required to democratise it
Free of the high taxes and stringent customs of mainland China, the fair adds to a burgeoning art scene in South Korea's second largest city
The theme of Imagined Borders addresses the fraught relationship with the North as well as global tensions surrounding migration and identity
Artwork in the demilitarised zone remains unfinished and could be destroyed after the countries pledged an end to the war
Korean artist has covered exterior of Brutalist gallery with 180,000 crystals as part of mid-career survey
Modern and contemporary works are on the way to Korea and Brazil
More officials than collectors?
Giving things back—the how, when, where and why
Representatives of the Seoul Design Foundation have contacted founder Craig Robins requesting his presence in Korea
Sold at auction for 4.52bn, ($4.86m)
The Korean collector has chosen the British architect David Adjaye to design the new building