The Korea Society is pleased to announce a rare opportunity for a guided tour of The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s special exhibit, Poetry in Clay: Korean Buncheong Ceramics from Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art. Soyoung Lee, the exhibition’s curator and the MET’s associate curator of the Department of Asian Art will be our guide to this exhibition of a bold and dynamic ceramic art that flourished in Korea during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. This special opportunity is only open to members of The Korea Society.
Friday, June 3, 2011 @ 4 PM
Poetry in Clay:
Korean Buncheong Ceramics from Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art
Membership Appreciation Event
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Tour participants will meet at the Group Desk in the Great Hall at 3:45 PM.
Poetry in Clay: Korean Buncheong Ceramics from Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art will be at the Met through August 14. The following related events will also be at the Met:
Gallery Talks
Tuesday, May 24; Friday, June 10; and Thursday, June 23 at 11:00 AM
Soyoung Lee, associate curator, Department of Asian Art, MMA
Wednesday, July 13 and Thursday July 28 at 11:00 AM
Joseph Loh, educator, MMA
Lectures
Sunday, May 15 at 3:00 PM
A Short Story about an Exhibition and Its Captivating Star
Soyoung Lee, associate curator, Department of Asian Art, MMA
Sunday, May 15 at 3:20 PM
Exploring Contemporary Korean Ceramics
Exhibition curator Soyoung Lee and Hyeyoung Cho, potter and independent lecturer
