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The full moon jar in the British Museum

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by Eunjung Shin on 20 November, 2009

in British Museum, Ceramics, History & heritage, Permanent displays

Eunjung Shin commences a series of articles helping those unfamiliar with Korean art to understand some of the treasures in the Korean Gallery in the British Museum. Her first choice is the famous Moon Jar.

Whenever people ask me what the essential characteristic of Korean art is, I always answer: ‘naturalism’. The full moon jar [...]

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Koreans sparkle at the Goldsmiths Fair

15 October 2009 Crafts
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The Goldsmith’s Fair is an annual show of some of the best designers and craftspeople in the jewellery and metalwork business, in the livery hall of the City of London’s oldest established guild. Every year, with around 80 stalls to choose from, there is a stunning range of items to view, many of which are [...]

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LKL Weekly Tweets, 2009-10-05

5 October 2009 Bloggers and newspeople
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Blogging brings many pleasures and privileges. Meeting fellow bloggers is one of them. Nice dinner with @maangchi in NY K-town. #
Aigoo. My favourite CD shop, AM Records in 32nd St, is now a tattoo parlour. And Koryo Books now has even fewer books. New York K-town is going downhill. #
@youneelondon Good luck with the BBC [...]

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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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Korean Artists in London Art Fair

14 January 2009 Bae Chan-hyo
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A feature on the six Korean artists included in the 2009 London Art Fair: Lee Jae-hyo, Park Seung-mo, Anna Hyun-sook Paik, Bae Chan-hyo, Lee Sea-hyun and Park Hyung-geun

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A visit to the Whanki Museum (환기 미술관)

23 February 2008 Exhibition reviews and comment
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The Korea Tourist Office website advises us that Kim Hwan-gi (1913-1974) (known internationally as Kim Whanki — and he signs his paintings just plain “Whanki”) “was Korea’s top artist of modernism”. It is therefore frustrating that when you go into the Tourist Information Offices in Insadong no-one has heard of him, still less of the [...]

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Shades of Shamanism

14 October 2007 Chuseok 2007

Peter Corbishley’s sketch of the BM’s Chuseok festivities
Times change. The small but significant Korean Collection at the British Museum includes a Moon Jar which so inspired the English potter Bernard Leech.

But the drum beat of Shamanistic trance was not perhaps what Dr Sloane or the Smirke family had in mind for the front lawns [...]

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Chuseok at the BM — part sprint, part marathon

26 September 2007 British Museum
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It is a commonplace observation that Korea is caught between two larger neighbours. Similarly, in marketing terms, the Korean events at the British Museum last Saturday were dwarfed by the blitzkrieg advertising for the Chinese “First Emperor” and the Japanese modern design exhibitions, both also at the British Museum at the same time. But although [...]

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Moon jars old and new

25 September 2007 British Museum
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There were moon jars a-plenty at the British Museum on Saturday: old and new, whole and smashed, real and fake and, as is the nature of these objects, none of them perfectly spherical.

In pride of place in Room 3, just as you enter the museum, is one of the prized items in the British [...]

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Focus on a piece of happiness

12 September 2007 British Museum
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The story goes that Bernard Leach, browsing in a Seoul antiques store in the mid 1930s, came across a Choson dynasty Moon Jar and held his head in disbelief at its beauty. And, after one of the more inspired impulse buys in recent art history, he walked out of the shop “carrying a piece of [...]

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Bang goes Chuseok

5 September 2007 Anglo-Korean Society

Two events to celebrate Chuseok, Korea’s harvest festival.
Firstly, the Anglo-Korean Society will be having a buffet dinner at Young Bean Kwan on the Barbican highwalks in the City on 20 September. Guest of honour will be Ambassador Cho.
There will be a short pre-dinner talk on Korean customs and food, and guests will be entertained by [...]

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Millennium Dream

15 August 2007 Ceramics
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It’s taken a while, but here is some more information on the artists and artisans from Gyeongsangbuk-do who were exhibiting in Mayfair earlier this year. It’s a shame that their sojourn was so brief. The quality and interest of their work was equal to that displayed in the Traditional Yet Contemporary exhibition last year, and [...]

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Artisans of Gyeongsangbuk-do exhibit in Mayfair

15 June 2007 Ceramics

I apologise to the ceramists and textiles artists of North Gyeongsang Province for going to their exhibition armed only with my mobile phone. And unfortunately there aren’t any press materials with images of the high quality work on show.
From the above photo you can just about tell that the vase in the front has a [...]

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Traditional Yet Contemporary sale at Bonhams

22 November 2006 Ceramics

The sale of contemporary Japanese and Korean ceramics at Bonhams on 7 November was the first time that a London auction had a focus on Korean work. As such, there was a lot of admiration from buyers as to the quality of the work, but when it came to putting hands in pockets buyers were [...]

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Review: Traditional yet Contemporary

8 June 2006 Ceramics

Air Gallery, London, May 29 – June 3 2006
As Stephanie Seung-min Kim says in her article introducing the exhibition, “…culture can only be seen in a clear light when compared with other cultures. I believe that is why Korean ceramic works have to be judged more in an international setting.” The exhibition demonstrated the truth [...]

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