The Korean Film Festival DC, one of the largest showcases of Korean cinema in the United States, kicks off this week at the Smithsonian's Freer Gallery of Art in Washington DC.
The 2012 edition of the festival, running throughout March, April, and into May, is spread over two months and combines 12 films, four video art exhibitions, two lecture events, and four post-film discussions with Korean director Na Hong-jin...More
Artist Mina Cheon poses in front of her work "Yes, We Can! Obama & Me" currently on exhibit at Sungkok Art Museum in central Seoul. Her exhibition "Polipop" runs through March 11. / Korea Times photo by Kwon Mee-yoo
By Kwon Mee-yoo
An enlarged DIY action figure of U.S. president Barack Obama rotates in the middle of the exhibition hall and dances to the "Hooked on a Feeling" ooga chaka refrain featured in the hit Fox-TV series "Ally McBeal" in a video installation titled "Obama Dancing". This is "The "Obama Room", a part of Korean-American artist Mina Cheon's exhibition "Polipop" at Sungkok Art Museum in Seoul...More
(Above picture: Minouk Lim, still from The Weight of Hands, 2010, Single-channel HD video with sound, 13' 51" - courtesy of the artist and PKM Gallery | Bartleby Bickle & Meursault)
2012 is packed with a mix of overseas exhibits featuring Korean artists currently active on the international art scene. Lee Bul, Haegue Yang, and Minouk Lim are joined by other emerging and established Korean artists to take part in a series of exhibitions held at some of the most renowned art institutions in America, Europe, and Asia.
Opening on February 4 is a large-scale solo exhibition of Lee Bul -- widely recognized as one of the leading Korean artists of her generation, -- at the Mori Art Museum found on the 53rd floor of the Mori Tower in the famous Roppongi Hills complex in Tokyo...More
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