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Perhaps because many of its influences came from China, Korean art rarely gets a fair share of attention in the West. Now Paris' Guimet Museum is helping right that imbalance with "The Poetry of Ink: The Literati Tradition in Korea, 1392-1910," a dazzling display of rarely seen Choson-era...
Since China's Song dynasty (960-1279), these interconnected arts have been considered the "three perfections," fitting pastimes for scholar-officials, or literati, who for political or personal reasons, often had little else to do. The idea of using simple calligraphic brushstrokes to create lyrical paintings (many of which featured...
Shared Confucian values are most obvious in the many paintings of the "four noble plants": plum blossoms, which flower before the snows melt, symbolize the hope of spring; chrysanthemums, the hardiness to survive in autumn; orchids, refinement and modesty; and bamboo, loyalty, because it bends but never breaks. This steadfastness...
Come June 9, some 30,000 of the world's leading critics, collectors and curators will descend on the Giardini della Biennale, where nearly half of the 73 competing countries are clustered in exhibition pavilions. Up for grabs is a Golden Lion award for best national presentation, but even more...
With an exhibition budget of $A1.4 million, triple that of New Zealand, Australia can afford to be more relaxed. Which suits the artist. While et al.'s installations often feature cyclone fencing and cacophonous sound loops, Swallow's pale wood carvings of skulls and suburban beanbags speak more softly. "The...