Artist_News
Artist Gala Porras-Kim Named ‘2025 MacArthur Fellow,’
Artist Gala Porras-Kim Named
2025.10.21
Artist Gala Porras-Kim Named ‘2025 MacArthur Fellow,’
Known as the Genius Grant
Artist Gala Porras-Kim Named
‘2025 MacArthur Fellow,’
Known as the Genius Grant
2025.10.21
Selected Exhibitions This Week
Selected Exhibitions This Week
Gallery_Exhibition
So Young PARK’s Solo Exhibition “Gonna Build
So Young PARK’s Solo Exhibition “Gonna Build
2025.10.21
So Young PARK’s Solo Exhibition “Gonna Build
a Mountain and Daydream”
on View Through November 9, 2025, at P21
So Young PARK’s Solo Exhibition “Gonna Build
a Mountain and Daydream”
on View Through November 9, 2025, at P21
2025.10.21
Art Focus
Art Focus
Gallery
UNBOXING PROJECT (UBP):
Opening the World Through a Small Frame
Gallery
UNBOXING PROJECT (UBP):
Opening the World
Through a Small Frame
Launched in Seoul in 2022, the “UNBOXING PROJECT (UBP)” is based on the premise of a “Small Scale.” Each edition poses a single theme and commissions new works from Korean artists across generations and media, focusing on the act of close observation rather than grand devices or spectacle. It is an ongoing curatorial experiment grounded in intimacy and precision.
Art Spectrum
Art Spectrum
Biennale
Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism 2025: “Radically More Human”
— When the City Embraces Humanity Again
Biennale
Seoul Biennale of
Architecture and Urbanism 2025:
“Radically More Human”
— When the City Embraces
Humanity Again
Celebrating its 10th anniversary, the Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism 2025 opened on September 26 under the direction of world-renowned designer Thomas Heatherwick. Heatherwick’s curatorial theme is both simple and bold: “Radically More Human.” The phrase itself reads like a manifesto. He refers to today’s cities as suffering from a “Blandemic
Art Voice
Art Voice
Art+
K-Culture in the World,
Art+
K-Culture in the World,
K-Culture continues to expand across the globe. At〈Music Bank in Lisbon〉, held in Portugal, artists such as IVE, Taemin, and RIIZE performed before a crowd of 20,000. It was not a one-time event but part of a broader system of performance production and fan-based engagement operating within the European market.
K-Culture in the World,
The Future of K-Art
Art+
K-Culture in the World,
The Future of K-Art
K-Culture continues to expand across the globe. At〈Music Bank in Lisbon〉, held in Portugal, artists such as IVE, Taemin, and RIIZE performed before a crowd of 20,000. It was not a one-time event but part of a broader system of performance production and fan-based engagement operating within the European market.
Art Insight
Art Insight
Art Theory
Sign Capitalism and the Crisis of Contemporary Art (2) :
Art Theory
Sign Capitalism and the Crisis
Jay Jongho Kim | Editor in Chief
In the previous essay, “The Age of Role Reversal,” we examined how essence is obscured by the non-essential. This chapter turns to the loss of value—a deeper layer of that same inversion. Here, “value” does not refer to market price. It signifies the belief in authenticity, autonomy, and inner necessity that once made art possible as art—a shared yet invisible agreement that sustained the meaning of artistic creation.
Sign Capitalism and the Crisis of Contemporary Art (2) :
The Age of Lost Value
Art Theory
Sign Capitalism and the Crisis
of Contemporary Art (2) :
The Age of Lost Value
Jay Jongho Kim | Editor in ChiefIn the previous essay, “The Age of Role Reversal,” we examined how essence is obscured by the non-essential. This chapter turns to the loss of value—a deeper layer of that same inversion. Here, “value” does not refer to market price. It signifies the belief in authenticity, autonomy, and inner necessity that once made art possible as art—a shared yet invisible agreement that sustained the meaning of artistic creation.
