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The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
Frieze Seoul (running until 5 September) and the Korea International Art Fair, Kiaf (until 6 September), opened their fifth year amid South Korean stock-market volatility, currency fluctuations, and...
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Chinese artists scheduled to participate in the 16th Gwangju Biennale officially withdrew on the eve of the exhibition’s opening on September 5, following a directive from the Chinese embassy in...
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Frieze Seoul opened its fifth edition at COEX in Gangnam in partnership with Kiaf Seoul, drawing heavy VIP attendance alongside biennial openings in Gwangju and Busan, though first-day sales were...
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Japanese visual artist and composer Ryoji Ikeda has won the ninth Nam June Paik Prize, a biannual award that includes a ₩50 million (about $36,807) purse and a solo exhibition at the Nam June Paik...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
South Korea’s Busan Biennale and Gwangju Biennale are running around Seoul art week with themes focused on resistance and transformation. The Busan Biennale, titled “Dissident Chorus,” is open until...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
Gwangju’s city government issued a formal apology to mainland China after the Gwangju Biennale renamed an exhibition the “Taiwan Pavilion,” and it reiterated support for the “One China Policy,”...
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South Korea’s Art Promotion Act, the country’s first law governing the art market, began implementing its first phase on 26 July, but galleries, auction houses, and dealers report confusion due to...
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The South Korean city of Gwangju apologized after controversy over the naming of the Gwangju Biennale’s Taiwan Pavilion, which was initially renamed in promotional materials before being restored...
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China has ordered its artists to withdraw from the 16th Gwangju Biennale, which opens September 5, after the Gwangju Biennial Foundation (GBF) allowed Taiwanese exhibitors to participate under the...
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Taiwanese artists accused South Korea’s Gwangju Biennale of political censorship after organizers removed the word “Taiwan” from the pavilion’s official name in promotional materials. The artists...
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Frieze Seoul announced it will move to Dongdaemun Design Plaza (DDP), the Zaha Hadid–designed cultural center that opened in 2014, starting with the fair’s 2027 edition because its current venue,...
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On 30 July, Israeli forces detonated 700 tonnes of explosives near Beaufort Castle (Qalaat Al Shaqif) in southern Lebanon, prompting Icomos Lebanon to urge Unesco to investigate. Lebanon’s National...
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UNESCO added the Mount Amel Castles in Lebanon and the archaeological ruins of Sebastia in the Occupied West Bank to its World Heritage List and simultaneously placed them on the List of World...
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Unesco added 25 properties to its World Heritage List during the 48th session of the World Heritage Committee in Busan, South Korea, held from 19–29 July. Among the new inscriptions are Alamut Castle...
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A UNESCO committee meeting in Busan, South Korea, voted on Friday to add the West Bank town of Sebastia and a group of five castles in southern Lebanon’s Mount Amel area to both the World Heritage...
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Unesco added the Ancient City of Tauric Chersonese and its Chora, a 5th-century BC Greek city in Russian-occupied Crimea, to the World Heritage in Danger list on July 22, 2026, during the 48th...
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On July 23, the Kansong Art Museum in Seoul held a ceremony returning two Qing Dynasty stone lion sculptures to China, following an agreement reached in early January. Attendees included Kansong Art...
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IM Youngzoo’s solo exhibition “The Late,” on view at Brooklyn’s Space ZeroOne through July 25, combines 17 works that connect Korean folk ritual, spirituality, and emerging technologies such as NFTs,...
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The New Museum in New York and Korea’s Ulsan Art Museum announced a multi-year partnership under the Hyundai Translocal Series, a Hyundai Motor Company initiative launched in 2025 as a 10-year...
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The 16th Gwangju Biennial in South Korea, running September 5 to November 15, 2026, has announced a list of more than 40 participating artists and groups, first published by e-flux. The exhibition is...
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ARTnews profiles VJayBombs, a Los Angeles guerrilla projection collective whose anti-Trump street-art interventions have gained a large online following, including nearly 300,000 followers across...
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Hyundai Motor Group has opened applications for the 7th VH AWARD, a program launched in 2016 to support emerging media artists whose work engages with the contexts of Asia through single-channel...
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Centre Pompidou Hanwha in Seoul opens to the public on 4 June as a four-year partnership between the Hanwha Foundation of Culture and Paris’s Centre Pompidou, marking the Pompidou’s second branch in...
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Centre Pompidou Hanwha is set to open in Seoul on June 4, following three years of planning, with the date marking the 140th anniversary of diplomatic relations between France and Korea. The outpost...
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Twenty years after the UK introduced the artist resale right (ARR), The Art Newspaper reports that the scheme—once strongly opposed by auction houses and dealers—has become broadly accepted in the...
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In an Art Law Corner column published 11 February 2026, Alexander Herman of the Institute of Art and Law examines how the legal principle of “inalienability” restricts museums—especially in...
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ARTnews reported the death of Chung Sang-hwa, a Korean painter associated with the Dansaekhwa movement, at age 93. The article notes his prominence within the monochrome painting tendency that gained...