30 September 2008
General arts news
“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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27 May 2008
Choi So-young
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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Suh Do-ho doubles estimate
4 July 2009 Back Seung-wooThe Christie’s sales of Korean artworks – and photography in particular – which took place on 1 July had mixed results.
While the more expensive pieces made their estimates – and in the case of Suh Do-ho’s Some / One the hammer price came in at twice the estimate – some of the more entry-level works [...]