K-Culture Chronicles: Inside Korea’s Art Boom

K-Culture Chronicles: Inside Korea’s Art Boom

Up next

Does L.A's Bold New LACMA Museum Work?

Los Angeles has a new museum. Or a new vision for an old one. One of the most important museums in the country, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, has just debuted a long-awaited new building. It’s designed by the revered Swiss architect Peter Zumthor. It cost three quarters o ...  Show more

The Most Provocative Performance in Venice

At the Venice Biennale, every two years, we expect big things from the artists picked to represent their countries. But I'm not sure anyone can quite prepare themselves for the universe of Florentina Holzinger. After years becoming a titan of the theater world, Holzinger is now g ...  Show more

Recommended Episodes

Seoul Art Friend's Andy St Louis on the Growing Korean Art Market
ArtTactic

In this episode of the ArtTactic Podcast, host Adam Green speaks with Seoul-based art critic Andy St. Louis, founder of Seoul Art Friend and author of Future Present: Contemporary Korean Art. As Frieze Seoul approaches its third edition, Adam and Andy explore the fair's growing i ...  Show more

Seoul searching
Today, Explained

South Korean lawmakers impeached not only their martial-law-declaring president but also the guy who stepped up to replace him. The Wall Street Journal's Korea bureau chief Timothy Martin explains the political K-drama. This episode was produced by Victoria Chamberlin, edited by ...  Show more

American sculpture—race and racism, Warsaw’s Museum of Modern Art, Jusepe de Ribera in Paris
The Week in Art

Shortly after the US election on 5 November, the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington opens The Shape of Power: Stories of Race and American Sculpture, a radical new perspective on the history of the discipline from 1792 to now. Ahead of its opening, Ben Luke speaks t ...

  Show more

Episode 1: Good Governance | Chris Bryant MP, Jeremy Deller and Victoria Siddall
Frieze Masters Podcast

'What do we want the UK to look like in 10 years, 20 years, 50 years in terms of culture?' – Victoria Siddall The first episode of the 2024 Frieze Masters Podcast brings together Sir Chris Bryant MP, artist Jeremy Deller and new director of the National Portrait Gallery Victoria ...  Show more