Create an album leaf, fan, or scroll of your peaceful place and poetry. This can be as an ink painting, collage, performance, or any other art form.

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.

Learn about Goryeo dynasty (918–1392) celadons, among the most renowned of Asian ceramics.

Scholar's accoutrements (chaekkeori), approx. 1860, by Yi Eungrok (active late 1800s). Korea. Joseon dynasty (1392–1910). Ink and colors on paper. Acquisition made possible by the Koret Foundation, the Connoisseurs' Council and Korean Art and Culture Committee. Re-mounting funded by the Society for Asian Art, 1998.111.

Standing Buddha, approx.700–800. Korea. Unified Silla dynasty (668–935). Gilt Bronze. The Avery Brundage Collection, B65B64.

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. 

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.

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). 

The Asian Art Museum presented Korea Foundation Korean Culture Day on Sunday, Nov. 17, 2013 for the fifth consecutive year. This feast of Korean culture featured food, music and other performances as well as hands-on art activities for all ages. The festival was presented in conjunction with the museum's special exhibition In Grand Style: Celebrations in Korean Art during the Joseon Dynasty.