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LKL Weekly Tweets, 2010-02-22

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by Philip Gowman on 22 February, 2010

in Film, Food & Drink, General arts news, Girls Generation, Humour, Lee Bul, Twitter Tweets

Kick a man when he’s down: steal his shoes from the funeral parlour. Sole searching in the JoongAng Daily http://bit.ly/adnzyI #
Biggest mass wedding in a decade: 14,000 are spliced in Unification Church ceremony: http://bit.ly/bFouGw #
New Product Approval Bill expected to be passed 26 Feb. Unnecessary intervention or saving bankers from themselves? http://bit.ly/c9Mk2s #
Good interview with [...]

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Another Park Soo-keun under the hammer

16 September 2009 Christie's
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It seems to be a quite frequent event nowadays: a work by one of Korea’s most popular and most expensive modern artists comes up for sale in a US saleroom. And so it is that another Park Soo-keun comes under the hammer at Christie’s New York tomorrow, with an estimated price tag of up to [...]

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London salerooms get Korean bug

24 June 2009 Christie's
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Two of London’s main art dealers and auction houses are majoring in Korean art at the moment. Phillips de Pury, tucked in behind the old Army & Navy store in Victoria, has an exhibition and sale of major contemporary artists which it hopes will become an annual event, while Christie’s is preparing for an auction [...]

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Asian Art in London 08: the Korean angle

29 October 2008 Asian Art in London
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The beginning of November is always a time for the West End art galleries and Kensington antique dealers to draw our attention to Asian Art. While a lot of the attention is always on the bigger countries, Korea gets a look-in.
The full guidebook for the programme can be downloaded from the Asian Art in London [...]

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A Park Soo-keun comes up for sale

30 September 2008 General arts news
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“80% of Korean art buyers are pure speculators”, says Juhl Joohyun Lee, director of Arario Gallery. And with Lee Kun-hee having stepped down from the chairmanship of Samsung and allegations flying that an illegal slush fund was used to buy works for his wife’s Leeum museum, Samsung has stopped buying art. So says the FT [...]

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Call for Artists

15 June 2008 Entry Forms
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The British Council and the KCC are co-sponsoring an exhibition by artists of Korean origin working in the UK. The exhibition will be held in December 2008.
A Call for artists notice has been published on the KCC website. Applications are due in by 1 August 2008. Details from the KCC.
Links:

Download the application form

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Recycled jeans raise $232,000

27 May 2008 Choi So-young
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Records were tumbling at the Christie’s auction of contemporary Asian art in Hong Kong on 24 May. As was to be expected, most attention (and cash) was focused on Chinese artists, but auction records were also set for individual artists from Indonesia, India and South Korea.
One of the Korean artists featured was Choi So-young (b [...]

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Korea, Manchester and the International Art Triennial

26 April 2008 Choe U-ram
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Beccy Kennedy reports
Britain’s first Triennial of Asian Art launched earlier this month, when a gaggle of global art goers gathered in the grandiose foyer and atrium of Manchester Art Gallery to preview the outstanding art installations from Korea. Of the five Asian countries selected by galleries in Manchester: China, India, Korea, Singapore and Taiwan, the [...]

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Study Korean and Japanese Art at SOAS

9 December 2007 General arts news

A great opportunity to find out more about Korean art: study towards a Postgraduate Diploma in Asian Art.

Study Korean and Japanese Art at SOAS — April — July 2008
The former British Museum postgraduate diploma course in Asian Art will now be offered at SOAS from 2008. Korea and Japan are seen in their Asian context,particularly [...]

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Asia Contemporary

22 October 2007 Art & Style in November

Designed to coincide with Asian Art in London, there’s an intensive five-day course at SOAS, University of London, focusing on Asian Contemporary Art. Well worth exploring if you have the opportunity:
ASIA CONTEMPORARY
5th — 9th November 2007
Course includes:

Lectures and seminars by leading experts and working artists
Visits to galleries and auction houses

Course Objectives:

To give an in-depth knowledge [...]

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Asian Art in London – 10th year

21 October 2007 Art & Style in November

Asian Art in London is an annual event which unites London’s leading Asian art dealers, major auction houses and societies in a series of gallery selling exhibitions, auctions, receptions, lectures and seminars. These are complemented by exhibitions at the leading museums. This is its tenth year and it runs from 1 – 10 November 2007.
There’s [...]

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Spot the difference: Starburst and June Bum Park

31 August 2007 Business
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Watch the two videos below and tell me if you think one was influenced by the other.

The top video is a new TV commercial for a new variant of the chewy sweet formerly known as Opal Fruits. The commercial is produced by London advertising agency TBWA according to Advertolog. Art director Tom Chancellor has [...]

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Fakes and curruption in art and academia

22 July 2007 ...blow by blow
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There has been a number of stories of fakes recently. Here’s a brief round-up of links
1 Shin Jeong-ah.

Dongguk University Fires Bogus Professor, Korea Times, 20 July
Stroke of luck, raw talent fueled Shin’s ascent, JoongAng Daily, 14 July. Some selected extracts:

Shin Jeong-ah was 23 when the 1995 collapse of the Sampoong Department Store in Seoul buried [...]

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Surrender your jeans — win a beer

16 July 2007 Choi So-young

Doesn’t sound a very good deal, huh? But let me explain further. Korean artist Choi So-young specialises in creating work out of denim. She’s going to be exhibiting at the Union Gallery in 2008… but she needs the raw materials to work with.
So the deal is this: YOU can be part of a collaborative, interactive [...]

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New record price for Korean painting

29 May 2007 General arts news

Every few months there’s another news item in the Korean press about a new domestic record price paid at auction for a Korean painting. And each time, the artist is Park Soo-keun (Bak Su-geun, 박수근) (1914-1965).
The most recent record was set this month (22 May), at W4.52bn:

Park Soo-keun: A Wash Place (Oil on canvas, 37 [...]

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