CLEVELAND, Ohio – The Cleveland Museum of Art enriched its collection of Korean art in its latest round of acquisitions by buying an exceedingly rare Buddhist painting from the Goryeo period ...

“I want to be a bridge between the past and the contemporary,” he told CNN in Seoul, South Korea, where he recently showed almost a dozen new works at the city’s inaugural Frieze art fai ...

Minhwa, which literally translates to "painting of the people," refers to Korean folk painting created by ordinary people in the distant past. In recent years, these works have been gaining ...

Seo began her foray into minhwa painting nine years ago under the tutelage of famed folk painter Ahn Mikyung, the former director of the South Korean Folk Painting Association. Now, Seo herself is ...

The world's attention might be fixed on Pyeongchang, South Korea, for the 2018 Olympic Games, but visitors to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, have the rare opportunity to take in the ...

Park Seo-bo, widely regarded as a seminal figure in the Korean modern abstract art scene, died on October 14 after a battle with lung cancer. He was 91. As one of the founding members of the ...

When Hong Kong company Le Comptoir closed its two-Michelin-star restaurant Écriture abruptly in September, it left staff out of a job, a landlord and suppliers owed millions in unpaid rent and ...