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10,000 Threads Around the World
Tuesday, March 8, 2011 | 6:30 PM- Event Link: !
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In conjunction with the gallery exhibition 10,000 Threads, acclaimed author Spike Gillespie explores the diversity and common threads of quilting in Korea, its neighbors, and lands beyond. Gillespie takes the listener on a global journey of the art, approaches, and techniques of quilt making. Tuesday, March 8, 2011 Asia Week 2011 Gallery Talk10,000 Threads Around the World with Spike GillespieAuthor, Quilts Around the World: The Story of Quilting from Alabama to Zimbabwe Read More -
Korean Traditional Woman Hat Making Workshop
Monday, November 8, 2010 | 5:51 PMLearn traditional Korean hatmaking from Chung Young-Yang, a master embroiderer and renowned textile scholar whose embroidery graces the presidential palaces of Korea, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Smithsonian Institution. Participants in this four-session workshop will learn to make a chobawi, a traditional Korean women’s hat with ear flaps of silk and fur. The class size limited, so register early. Every Monday, November 8-29 3PM-5PM Read More -
Korean Masked Dance-Drama: Enchanted Fertility Rite and Social Satire
Thursday, April 1, 2010 | 12:00 AM- Custom HTML field content: About the Speaker
Join us as Theresa Ki-ja Kim, professor emeritus of theater arts at SUNY Stony Brook, discusses how Korea's unique tradition of masked dance-dramas masterfully blended fertility rite, social satire, and popular entertainment. Held in conjunction with the exhibition, Masks of Night: Faces from Traditional Korean Dance-Dramas, Kim's gallery talk will introduce the masked dance-drama, a form of performance that included songs, dances, and dialogues that aimed to satirize the local nobility (yangban) and promote... Read More -
The Religious Revolution in Modern Korean History
Tuesday, May 5, 2009 | 6:30 PM- Event Content: itms://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/corporate-views-on-korea-from/id210903888?i=121345664#
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On May 5, 2009, Don Baker, Associate Professor in the Department of Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia, spoke about the history of Christianity and religion in Korea with Fred Carriere, The Korea Society's Executive Vice President. The interview is in support of 'Missionary Photography in Korea: Encountering the West through Christianity,' an exhibition previously on display at The Korea Society Gallery. The arrival of the first Western missionaries in Korea in the late 19th century was a... Read More -
Pojagi: Cloth, Color and Beyond
Wednesday, March 18, 2009 | 6:30 PMJoin us for a panel discussion on the art and history of Korean wrapping cloths, or pojagi, with Lee Talbot, assistant curator of The Textile Museum; Chunghie Lee, fiber artist; and Seta K. Wehbé, assistant collection manager of the Antonio Ratti Textile Center at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Linking pojagi aesthetics to both traditional American quilts and contemporary abstract painting, the panelists will discuss the enduring appeal of pojagi and what they reveal about the lives and times of their... Read More -
Encountering North Korea Through Its Art
Thursday, December 4, 2008 | 5:53 PMGallery Talkwith Jane PortalMatsutaro Shoriki Chair of the Art of Asia, Oceania and Africa, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.Thursday, December 4, 2008 We might think that we know about North Korea - it has been so much in the news recently, presenting a nuclear threat to the region. But in fact we know very little about the country. In the 19th century, the undivided country was called the hermit kingdom. Since 1953, the South has become accessible and widely known, while the North has remained... Read More -
Our Toys, Our Selves: Robot Taekwon V and South Korean Identity
Thursday, February 7, 2008 | 6:30 PM- Event Content: itms://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/corporate-views-on-korea-from/id210903888?i=121345682#
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On February 7, 2008, Aaron Han Joon Magnan-Park, an assistant professor in the Department of Film, Television and Theatre at the University of Notre Dame, delivered at lecture at The Korea Society entitled "Our Toys, Our Selves: Robot Taekwon V and South Korean Identity." The lecture was in support of "Toy Stories: Souvenirs from Korean Childhood," an exhibition of toys from 1970s and 1980s Korea, showing at The Korea Society gallery, and available for travel around the United States in 2008. Read More -
Toy Stories: Souvenirs from Korean Childhood
Thursday, January 31, 2008 | 6:00 PMExhibitionJanuary 31–April 18, 2008 Toys are always more meaningful than the simple playthings they appear to be. They can embody the fantasies, values, obsessions and anxieties of a generation. With Toy Stories: Souvenirs from Korean Childhood, The Korea Society put on display over 90 children's toys from South Korea in the 1970s and ‘80s. On loan from the Hyeon Tae-Joon Collection in Seoul, the toys—flamboyantly colored action figures, robots, miniature tanks and paper dolls—captured a society in economic and... Read More -
Korean Funerary Figures: Companions for the Journey to the Other World
Thursday, July 26, 2007 | 6:00 PMExhibition July 26, 2007 - December 18, 2007 "... eye-catching." - New York Times Art Review, "Korea’s Extraordinary Send-Offs for Ordinary People", August 17, 2007 link "... the artifacts... are truly treasures." - Japan Times Review, "Little Friends for the Other World", October 11, 2007 link Death is an aspect of the human condition that touches every culture in every age, and almost all cultures envelop death in a rich artistry as a way of managing the trauma it causes. In nineteenth and early... Read More -
Exhibiting Korea
Thursday, May 24, 2007 | 8:35 PM- Custom HTML field content: About the Speaker
A New, Monthly Series of Gallery Talk Programs May 24 - November 16, 2007 Exhibiting Korea, a new monthly series of presentations on the fine arts, film, fashion and photograph of the Korean Peninsula, is debuting in April 2007. Series programs will address contemporary trends in cultural expression in Korea, and take audiences back to important movements they might have overlooked. These gallery talks, given by top experts, critics and artists, will put the colors and shapes of modern Korea on display —... Read More