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Free Feast & Film
Friday, January 29, 2010 at 6pm
Please join members of the Korean Art Society along with the Korean
Spirit and Culture Promotion Project on January 29th at 6pm for a
gourmet feast of traditional
Korean cuisine and a fascinating English-language film on cultural
and scientific achievements from Korea's history, 'Fifty Wonders of
Korea'. The film is fifty minutes in length, and will be followed
by a twenty minute film on recent advancements and discoveries from
Korea. This will be followed by conversation and a dinner that will
be even more delicious than what you'll find in the restaurants of
Korea Town. We'll also be distributing free books on Korean history
and culture at this event. Come have a good time with us and enjoy
the good company of your fellow Korean Art Lovers!
Curator-led Tour of the Newark Museum's Korean Art Collection
Friday, February 19, 2010 at 11am
Just
20 minutes away from Midtown Manhattan, there is a beautiful collection
of Korean art featuring a renowned collection of folk paintings and
fine ceramics, including a maebyong vase that has been in the museum's
collection for over a hundred years and is widely regarded as one of
the greatest examples of inlaid celadon in existence. Please join us
for a tour of the collection conducted by the Newark Museum's Curator
of Asian Art, Katherine Paul, in one of the first Korean galleries in
an American museum. As an extra special treat, Katie, whose specialty
is Himalayan art, will also lead us on a tour of the museum's famous Tibetan
collection. Attendees of this
event are in for a real treat.
Korean
Masterpieces in the Brooklyn Museum Storage Rooms Friday, April 30, 2010 at 10am
The Brooklyn Museum, with one of the
most extensive Korean collections in the West, has agreed to give the Korean
Art Society a private viewing of the Korean masterpieces in its storage area.
The Brooklyn Museum has been collecting Korean art for 100 years, and was the
first museum outside of Asia to open a permanent Korean gallery. The Korean
government recently spent five years cataloging Brooklyn's important Korean
collection, and we have copies of that catalog available to give to Korean Art
Society members. When you see this catalog, you will be amazed at the number of fine and rare pieces in the collection and will understand why the Korean
government decided that it was necessary to catalog this comprehensive and very
important collection. Because of space and budget limitations, only a very
small percentage of the collection is on view, and most of it rarely ever gets
displayed. So this is a unique opportunity for lovers of Korean art.
Korean Art Day at the Philadelphia Museum Friday, June 25, 2010 at 11am
The Korean Art Society and the Philadelphia Museum of Art
have planned for you a stimulating tour, led by PMA's Curator of Korean
Art, Hyunsoo Woo, of an exhibition of Korean Joseon Dynasty white
porcelains and a related exhibition of contemporary Korean photography.
We will also tour the museum's permanent collection of Korean art in
their Korean gallery, where we will see, among other treasures, the
newly displayed and famous pair of Phoenix and Peacocks paintings that
were on display last year in the National Palace Museum of Korea. PMA is one of only 4 American museums to have their important Korean collections cataloged by the Korean government.
Korean Art Society Tour of Boston Area Museums
Monday thru Wednesday, August 17 - 19, 2010
Within about a half-hour of each other are three museums
in the Boston area that house fine collections of Korean art. This has
to be the largest concentration of Korean art in one area outside of
Korea and Japan. The Korean Art Society tour of these collections was
arranged with some of the foremost scholars of Korean art: Jane Portal
(Chair of Asian, Oceanic, and African Art at the Museum of Fine Arts),
Robert Mowry (Head of Asian Art at the Harvard Sackler Museum), and
Susan Bean (Curator of Korean and South Asian Art at the Peabody Essex
Museum). We invite you to join us for this rare and wonderful
opportunity to view the finest and oldest collections of Korean art in
America with our esteemed hosts.
Korean Masterpieces in the Mary
Griggs Burke Collection
Friday, September 10, 2010 at 11am
The Mary Griggs Burke Collection, one of the largest and finest private
collections of Asian art, has been exhibited at New York's Metropolitan
Museum and other major museums. The Asia Society once had an exhibition
based on a single very important early Korean Buddhist painting from
this collection. The Korean Art Society is very fortunate to be invited
to Ms. Burke's Manhattan home to view rare and famous masterpieces in Korean
sculpture, painting, and ceramics.
Korean
Masterpieces in the Brooklyn Museum Storage Rooms Friday, October 29, 2010 at 11am
The Brooklyn Museum, with one of the
most extensive Korean collections in the West, has agreed to give the Korean
Art Society a private viewing of the Korean masterpieces in its storage area. The Brooklyn Museum has been collecting Korean art for 100 years, and was the
first museum outside of Asia to open a permanent Korean gallery. The Korean
government recently spent five years cataloging Brooklyn's important Korean
collection, and we have copies of that catalog available to give to Korean Art
Society members. When you see this catalog, you will be amazed at the number of fine and rare pieces in the collection and will understand why the Korean
government decided that it was necessary to catalog this comprehensive and very
important collection. Because of space and budget limitations, only a very
small percentage of the collection is on view, and most of it rarely ever gets
displayed. So this is a unique opportunity for lovers of Korean art.
The
Lee Young Hee Museum of Korean Culture Friday, November 19, 2010 at 11am
You're really missing
out if you haven't seen the fine collection in this museum. Their collection of
hanbok (traditional Korean clothing) is unmatched. In addition to antique and
contemporary hanbok, you will see Korean furnishings, ornaments, and much more.
We'll be generously treated to a private tour by Director Jong Suk Sung. We'll have lunch after the
tour in one of the many fine Korean restaurants in Korea Town.