Discover how women of eighteenth-century Korea pushed boundaries through fashion. View this ensemble and more in the Couture Korea exhibition.
Renowned scholars discuss the impact of personalities and patronage on the arts of Asia.
The Society for Asian Art's renowned Arts of Asia lecture series will focus on trade roads and sea routes. You will be transported from courts to caravans, from stupas to shipwrecks, from mountain passes and river valleys to open seas. Travel with merchants and monks, monarchs and missionaries and see their riches and relics. Discover ancient ceramics, sculptures, coins, calligraphy, tea wares, textiles and much more.
In this video, Buddhist monk artists, Seol-min (formerly known as Jae-u) and Myung Chun discuss Korean Buddhist art and paint the Guardian King of the West, which is now in the Asian Art Museum's collection. This video also includes footage from a symbolic "eye-opening" ceremony, which took place at the museum on December 20, 2003.
Join ABC7 and the Asian Art Museum as we travel to Korea to explore the origins of the artworks in the exhibition, In Grand Style: Korean Art During the Joseon Dynasty (1392–1910), and how they continue to influence the food, travel, and lifestyle in Korea today.
Sun Joo Kim, Harvard-Yenching Professor of Korean history in the department of East Asian languages and civilizations and Director of Korea Institute, Harvard University, gives a talk on the Joseon dynasty (1392–1910) in conjunction with the exhibition, In Grand Style: Celebrations in Korean Art During the Joseon Dynasty at the Asian Art Museum.
The Wooden Fish Ensemble plays the music of Hyo-shin Na, including the world premiere of a new work based on A Meadow by Czeslaw Milosz for piano solo. Program includes commentary by Hyo-shin.
This selection of resources introduces myths and folktales from Korea. Resources support the Korean Storytelling school program at the Asian Art Museum.
Artist Kwangwoo Bae demonstrates the process of making Korean mother-of-pearl lacquerware.
This lustrous stoneware vessel is a ewer, or pitcher, dating to the early 1100s, during Korea's Goryeo dynasty (918–1392). It was probably used for wine, which may have been warmed by placing the ewer in a matching bowl of heated water. The ewer's color is called celadon, which is created by a glaze that includes iron oxide. Today, connoisseurs around the world continue to treasure Goryeo celadon as among the most precious items created by Korean artisans.
Make a monkey puppet in celebration of the Year of the Monkey in the Chinese zodiac.
Mr. Oh talks about the art of calligraphy, the importance of inner tranquility, self discipline and practice. He defines calligraphy as harmony of hand and spirit.
This selection of resources introduces New Year's stories and traditions from across Asia. Resources support the New Year Celebrations storytelling school program at the Asian Art Museum.
The sponsorship of art by monarchs, merchants, and devotees throughout Asia will be explored. Lectures will focus on topics spanning Chinese patronage from ancient times through several of the most famous imperial dynasties (Song, Yuan, Ming, and Qing) to Jayavarman VII (Angkor Wat), the Safavids in Persia, Jahanara Begum (Shah Jahan's daughter), and even contemporary patrons like the Samsung family.
View talks by renowned scholars from the symposium which coincide dwith the opening of the exhibition, Poetry in Clay: Korean Buncheong Ceramics from Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art on view at the Asian Art Museum (September 16, 2011–January 8, 2012).
Jaebin Yoo, Harvard-Yenching visiting fellow and Ph.D. candidate in art history at Seoul National University, discusses the return procession of King Jeongjo in conjunction with the exhibition, In Grand Style: Celebrations in Korean Art During the Joseon Dynasty, at the Asian Art Museum.
Portrait of Seosan Daesa, Hyujeong, approx. 1593–1650. Korea. Joseon dynasty (1392–1910). Ink and colors on silk. Museum purchase, City Arts trust Fund, 1992.345.
As long as people have valued art there has been incentive to make copies, imitations and fakes...
Shamanism is a belief system wherein a person (shaman) acts as an intermediary between humans and spirits. Inspired by Phantoms of Asia, this MATCHA event looks at how the living interact with the spirit world. Our special guest is Dohee Lee, currently an artist in residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts. She will reveal excerpts from her work-in-progress, Mago, which layers installation, music, dance, animation, and ritual with Korean traditional art forms and shamanism.
This selection of resources support the stART storytelling school program at the Asian Art Museum.
Korean-born New York based artist Sun K. Kwak makes the invisible visible using a surprisingly simple medium: black masking tape. Through a process infused with an element of performance, Kwak channels surrounding energy to manifest a movement of lines, liberating the space and transforming it into a new pictorial reality. Find out more.
A talk by Jaesup Pak, University of Korea, on tea culture in Korea at the Asian Art Museum in conjunction with the exhibition, In Grand Style: Celebrations in Korean Art During the Joseon Dynasty.
Watch artist Jung Ran Bae create sculptures for her exhibition, Teater-Totter: Human Betweens, in the Korea galleries at the Asian Art Museum from late August 2014 through April 2015.
Truong Tran reads a poem he wrote in response to the artworks, "Frozen Waves," 2010 and Terra Incognita Theta," by Bae Young-whan. This work is in the exhibition Phantoms of Asia: Contemporary Awakens the Past (on view at the Asian Art Museum from May 18-September 2, 2012). This presentation was part of MATCHA. Co-presented by Litquake.
The first section of lectures in this series will cover the history of Korean culture and art chronologically, ending with an analysis of Korea’s exciting contemporary art scene. The last four lectures will examine early Japanese culture and art (with the remaining history of Japanese art to be covered in the Spring 2014 semester).
The Lotus Lantern Festival, also known as Yeondeunghoe or the “Feast of Lanterns,” is one of the most celebrated Buddhist ceremonies held in Korea. On the eighth day of the fourth lunar month (late April or early May of the Roman calendar), hundreds of thousands of candlelit paper lanterns are raised throughout the country to commemorate the Buddha’s birthday. In addition to the popular eight-sided lantern painted with Buddhist symbols of longevity and good fortune, lanterns are also constructed in various shapes and sizes based on themes of birth—including turtles, watermelon, fish, and ducks. These decorative lanterns are suspended in the front of every household, one lantern for each family member, with their names and prayers written on narrow sheets of white paper that sway gently from the base of the lanterns.
Chin-Sung Chang, Associate Professor in the department of archaeology and art history at Seoul National University, gives a talk on the splendors of the royal family in late Joseon dynasty court paintings in conjunction with the In Grand Style: Celebrations in Korea Art During the Joseon Dynasty exhibition at the Asian Art Museum.
Trace the spread of Buddhism through close looking at Buddhist objects from different regions. Explore how artifacts reveal distinct local traditions as well as common ideas and motifs.
A time-lapse video of artist Sun K. Kwak creating "Untying Space_Asian Art Museum, SF." Experience this work in person at the Asian Art Museum during the "Phantoms of Asia" exhibition (on view from May 18-September 2, 2012).
Asian Art Museum volunteer Sandon Chin shot and edited this timelapse video of artist Lee Kang Hyo's demonstration of Korean buncheong pottery.
