Ballerina Kang Sue-jin to lead Korean National Ballet
The principal ballerina at the Stuttgart Ballet in Germany, Kang Sue-jin, recently accepted an offer to become the next artistic director at the Korean National Ballet, Korea.net reports. After her 33 year-long life overseas, Kang is looking forward to her new career with a strong will to help the Korean National Ballet develop, “its own unique style.” At a press conference in Seoul on December 18, 2013, Kang said that she had...
Jameel Prize 2013 goes to Turkish fashion designers
The third biannual Jameel Prize has gone to Turkish fashion designer Dice Kayek, a label established in Paris in 1992 by sisters Ece and Ayse Ege. The GBP 25,000 Jameel Prize 3 went to the sisters, native of Bursa, for Istanbul Contrast, a collection of garments that evoke Istanbul’s architectural and artistic heritage. The judges felt that Dice Kayek’s work demonstrates how vibrant and creative Islamic traditions continue to be...
Laure Prouvost wins the Turner Prize 2013
The Turner Prize 2013 has been awarded to French artist Laure Prouvost, it was announced at Ebrington in Derry~Londonderry, UK City of Culture 2013, in partnership with Tate, 2 December 2013. The jury thought her work was outstanding for its complex and courageous combination of images and objects in a deeply atmospheric environment. Building on personal memory, it weaves together fact, fiction, art history and modern technology....
BOOK REVIEW: Lost Generation: Luo Zhenyu, Qing Loyalists and the Formation of Modern Chinese Culture
YANG CHIA-LING and RODERICK WHITFIELD, eds, Lost Generation: Luo Zhenyu, Qing Loyalists and the Formation of Modern Chinese Culture. London: Saffron Books, 2012. 312pp. ISBN 978-1-872843-57-7. Review by TIM BARRETT | You may buy this book here Until less than a generation ago the name of Luo Zhenyu was known to virtually everyone working on pre-modern China – certainly those working on early and medieval China. In some respects his...
Four Living Treasures of Japan
Exemplary work of four of Japan’s greatest living artists is presented in a Fine Art Society exhibition in London. The latest in the gallery’s series of homages to the arts of Japan, a series which stretches back to the 1880s, the exhibition presents the work of Jun Isezaki, Kunihiko Moriguchi, Kazumi Murose and Noboru Fujinuma. Living National Treasure is the popular term for Important Intangible Cultural Property, an individual so...
Art Edition Korea aims for global audience
Korea’s Art Edition 2013 has set sights on global audiences as it prepares for its latest edition 5-8 December 2013. More than 50 international galleries are expected to take part in the fair which will take place at SETEC, Seoul, under the auspices of the (South) Korea Print Photography Promotion Association with support from the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism. Eastern Art Report is the art fair’s media...
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