Contemporary Korean Choreographers International DUMBO Dance Festival: Contemporary Korean Choreographers October 19 – 25, 2005 In association with WHITE WAVE, a Brooklyn-based performance, teaching and rehearsal hub, The Korea Society presented the first annual International DUMBO Dance Festival. Marking an exciting departure from the usual presentation of traditional Korean performing arts, the Festival featured […]
Exhibition September 7 – October 28, 2005 This exhibition examined the changing social realities of Korean society from the 1950s to the 1990s through a selected reading of Korea’s most popular comic books. Featuring the works of 17 of the best-known artists, the exhibition offered a running commentary that reflected the lives of […]
The Korea Society once again provided financial and logistical support for the New York Korean Film Festival in 2005 and also served as its fiscal agent. For the fifth year in a row, the best in new wave Korean cinema was brought to the streets of New York under the auspices of this unique event, […]
To mark the opening of an exhibition of Korean dragon paintings, author and folklore specialist Heinz Insu Fenkl, director of the Interstitial Studies Institute at SUNY New Paltz, lectured on dragon symbolism in both the East and West. Due to its association with serpents in the Old Testament, he explained, the dragon was considered a […]
Exhibition February 2 – April 10, 2005 This exhibition included four paintings of Korean dragons and a pair of dragon sculptures on loan from the Lea Sneider Collection. All the pieces mixed strict formalism with unexpected creativity. Two of the paintings depicted dragons as benevolent bringers of rain, symbolized by a dragon surrounded […]
This program featured the screening of a documentary by award-winning producers Dan Gordon and John Battsek, which premiered on the PBS program, Wide Angle, on September 11, 2003. The documentary provides a rare, and surprising, glimpse into the individual and family life underneath the monolithic veneer of North Korean society. A Q&A session with […]
Art imitates life, and life may imitate art. Sometimes life becomes art. The artists and writers presented here juggle time and space, time zones and languages to produce their art and literature. Like the needle of a compass, they wobble as they set their direction. Staying in balance requires perpetual motion… constant adjustment for disruptive […]
April 27 – June 30, 2004 Gallery Hours:11:00AM – 5:00PMTuesday through Friday Public Lecture A Bright Fascination: Korean Folk PaintingsBy Hyunsoo Woo Thursday, May 27, 2004 @ 6:30PMAdmission free, reservation required
