During this year's Seoul Art Week, painter Jinju Lee's work could be found impressing art observers just about everywhere. The prolific artist, who teaches at Hongik University College of Fine Art, was showing at the Frieze Art Fair and at three other galleries, while also preparing for an exhibit in the Netherlands. Two paintings from…
Scattered across a scenic rooftop garden of newly-opened Whitestone Gallery in central Seoul s Yongsan District on a cloudless September afternoon were moon jars made by rising Korean ceramicist Shin Won-dong.
IN THE 1930S, a savvy developer embarked on a real-estate venture in Samcheong, a neighborhood in the heart of Seoul that was once home to a six-hundred-year-old village. Using modern materials for an urban update to the traditional Korean building style, the company created the Bukchon Hanok Village, a tony residential area whose narrow winding streets are now firmly on the tourist map.On Monday of Seoul Art Week, Various Small Fires hosted a reception in one of Bukchon’s hanoks, whose basement had been retooled as a viewing room for a suite of painted prints by Kyungmi Shin. Those who snuck
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