In the course of his career, painter Po Kim worked in three distinct modes, gestural abstraction, realist still-life and symbolist figuration. This talk will examine each of these periods and look at how Po Kim’s work related to the art of the period, especially that of other artists working in New York. I will also seek to understand the motives that sparked his stylistic restlessness, and ask whether his early experiences of war and violence in Korea and Japan may have helped inspire his evident faith in the power of art.
Po Kim: Making Impossible Demands on Art
Gallery Talk with Raphael Rubinstein
Art critic and editor, Art in America Professor of Critical Studies University of Houston School of Art
Chef Hooni Kim, the owner of Danji, a Michelin-starred Korean restaurant in Hell’s Kitchen, and Simon Kim, the proprietor of Cote, a modern Korean steakhouse in the Flatiron district of Manhattan, share their remarkable and challenging experience promoting Korean cuisine in New York City and globally. Marja Vongerichten, host of the PBS TV series “Kimchi Chronicles,” and the author of a companion cookbook titled, “Kimchi Chronicles: Korean Cooking for an American Kitchen,” moderates the evening program.
Bringing the Flavors of Cote and Danji to The Korea Society Wednesday, September 13, 2017 | 6:30 PM
Korea Society Fellow, Patron, and Corporate members, please register HERE for complimentary tickets.
If you have any questions, please contact Kloe Byun or (212) 759-7525, ext. 321.
About the Speakers
Born in Seoul, Korea, Hooni Kim lived briefly in London before settling in New York City when he was 10 years old. He grew up in New York City, but headed west to the University of California at Berkeley to study biology and obtain a medical degree. Hooni eventually changed course to follow his passion for food and returned to the East Coast to attend the French Culinary Institute. He followed up his formal culinary training at two Michelin three-star restaurants, Daniel and Masa.
Now Hooni Kim is the chef and owner of Danji, a Korean restaurant in the Hell’s Kitchen area of New York City. The 36-seat solo venture showcases authentic Korean flavors in a modern setting with a focus on classic techniques and quality ingredients.
In its first full year in business, Danji received a coveted star from the Michelin Guide and has been featured in numerous media outlets in the United States such as The New York Times, New York Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, New York Post, and The Village Voice.
Simon Kim is the proprietor of Cote, a modern Korean steakhouse in Manhattan’s Flatiron district. Born in Seoul, Korea, Kim began his hospitality career at MGM Grand Hotel and Casino, while studying Hotel Administration at the University of Nevada. After graduation, Kim led the front-of-house team at Blue Fin in New York City, then moved on to work with Jean-Georges Vongerichten, at both Matsugen and The Mark. During his time at The Mark, Kim met chef Christopher Cipollone, who he later collaborated with to open Piora, a Michelin-starred new-American restaurant in the West Village. In May 2017, Kim fulfilled his lifelong dream to open a game-changing Korean barbecue steakhouse with Cote. Cote marries the conviviality of Korean barbecue with the top-notch ingredients, stellar service, and sexy interiors of the classic American steakhouse.
Marja Vongerichten (moderator) is a former model and actress, a chef, author and TV personality. Marja was born in South Korea; adopted at the age of three and raised in America. She attended the Duke Ellington School of Performing Arts in Washington, DC, and was crowned Miss Teen USA for the District of Columbia. Marja is the host of the PBS TV series “Kimchi Chronicles” and the author of a companion cookbook “Kimchi Chronicles: Korean Cooking for an American Kitchen.” Along with her husband, Jean-Georges Vongerichten, Marja opened a Korean barbeque restaurant named “Chi-Q” in Shanghai, China. Marja established a pop up Korean restaurant called “Kimchi Goddess,” in partnership with ARAMARK, that she features on college campuses, such as American University in Washington, DC. Marja has created her own line of Asian food products under the brand name “Marja’s Original,” which will be on the market this Fall. Marja has been a pioneer in helping to introduce Korean food and culture to America.
Members of The Korea Society were invited to an exclusive private tour of an exhibition that showcased works from renowned private, American, Asian-art collections. Exquisite pieces such as porcelain bottle vases, hanging scrolls, and panel screens from the Silla Dynasty (5th century) through the Joseon Dynasty (19th century) were presented. The highlight of the exhibition was “A Blue-and-white Porcelain Jar with Autumn Grasses” from the first half of the 18th century, one of the finest delicately embellished Korean porcelain jars.
The tour was led by Dr. Young Yang Chung, Chair of the Program Committee at The Korea Society, and Takaaki Murakami, Head of Sale at Christie’s.
Private Tour of An Inquiring Mind: American Collecting of Japanese & Korean Art
@ Christie’s New York 20 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY 10020
Step into the exclusive and discerningly curated world of Korean beauty at Glow Recipe! Glow Recipe co-founders, Christine Chang and Sarah Lee, recently appeared on ABC’s Shark Tank and their company has received extensive press coverage in outlets such as Vogue, Forbes, Fortune, and Chosun Ilbo. In recognition of their market leadership in beauty content and education, Glow Recipe was also cited by InStyle as one of the “Best Online Sources for Beauty.” Worth Global Style Network, WGSN, dubbed their site as one of its “Top 5 Beauty Blogs to Watch.”
The event will take place at Glow Recipe’s first ever pop-up store, Glow Studio Downtown, in the heart of Soho. Co-founders and beauty industry veterans, Christine and Sarah, will introduce the top K-beauty trends for 2017. After the talk, guests will enjoy a private shopping experience with exclusive discounts, samples and “gifts with purchase.”
If you have any questions, please contact Kloe Byun or (212) 759-7525, ext. 321.
More about the Company
Sarah Lee and Christine Chang co-founded Glow Recipe in November 2014, with the mission to make curated Korean beauty innovations easily accessible to beauty-forward women around the world. In addition to being one of the fastest growing Korean beauty e-commerce sites, Glow Recipe uniquely functions as a brand incubator, helping to foster K-beauty brand partnerships with key US retailers such as Sephora and QVC.
The winners of the prestigious Onnara Gugak Competition visit The Korea Society for a special concert of traditional Korean music. The young masters will perform gayageum sanjo, p’iri sangnyeongsanpuri, jeongga suyangsanga, and the famous Arirang medley. The concert also features chunaengjeonon, a court dance inspired by singing nightingales on a fine spring day.
Young Masters in Concert: Winners of the Onnara Gugak Competition
Tickets: Free for Supporter, Fellow & Patron Members $10 Individual Members $20 Non-members
This performance is presented in collaboration with the Korean Cultural Center New York and the National Gugak Center.
If you have any questions, please contact Luz Lanzot or (212) 759-7525, ext. 309.
ABOUT THE NATIONAL GUGAK CENTER
Gugak, or traditional Korean music, has been passed down through the ages and represents the breath of Korean history and culture. The National Gugak Center is the principal institution engaged in producing and disseminating traditional Korean music and dance. The Center’s Court Music Orchestra, Folk Music Group, Traditional Dance Theater, and Contemporary Gugak Orchestra actively perform to preserve and develop gugak. Also, the Gugak Research Office was established for academic research on Korea n music.
In addition to performance and research, the Center is engaged in education, and provides lectures for teachers, families, and foreign residents in Korea.
The Center’s museum exhibits 5,000 items representing the history of Korean music. The Namwon National Gugak Center for Changgeuk, the Jindo National Gugak Center (known for its training programs), and the Busan National Gugak Center are affiliated branches.
This illustrated slide lecture will introduce Korean Buddhist art, focusing on the late Three Kingdoms period (traditionally, 57 BC – AD 668), the Unified Silla period (668–935), and the Koryŏ period (918–1392). Buddhism reached Korea from China in the fourth century; by the Unified Silla period, most members of the royal family were Buddhists, and the royal court patronized the religion, building temples and commissioning sculptures; by the Koryŏ period, the nation had espoused Buddhism as the state religion. Thus, during the millennium from the fourth through the fourteenth century (and the end of the Koryŏ dynasty), Buddhism flourished, as did Buddhist art, so that this era was the golden age of Buddhism in Korea. This lecture will pay particular attention to the sculpture of the Three Kingdoms and Unified Silla periods, to the magnificent temple architecture of the Unified Silla period (including Pulguk-sa and Sŏkkuram in Kyŏngju), and to the refined paintings and sumptuous sutras of the Koryŏ era. The lecture will explore the nature of Chinese influence on Korean Buddhist art, just as it will touch on Korean influence on Japanese Buddhist art.
If you have any questions, please contact Jahee Yuor (212) 759-7525 ext 301.
Space is Limited. Early Registration Requested.
This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in Partnership with the City Council.
About the Speaker
Recently retired after more than 25 years as a senior curator at the Harvard Art Museums (H/AM), Robert D. Mowry was also the university’s Alan J. Dworsky Curator of Chinese Art (2000-2013) and Head of the Department of Asian Art (1991-2013). He continues to serve as Senior Lecturer on Chinese and Korean Art in Harvard’s Department of the History of Art and Architecture. Under his stewardship, Harvard added numerous and very significant works to what already was one of the finest collections of Asian art in the Western world. Mowry was instrumental in acquiring several renowned collections as well as important endowments for the H/AM, over and above annual fundraising efforts for specific acquisitions and exhibitions. The National Museum of Korea has named Robert Mowry its Senior International Fellow for 2013, and he is also senior editor of its scholarly journal, The Journal of Korean Art and Archaeology.
Mowry’s passion for Asian art and culture was sparked by his two-year service in the Peace Corps in Korea more than 40 years ago (1967-1969). He taught English at Seoul National University, before returning to the University of Kansas, where he completed his graduate work with Chu-tsing Li and Laurence Sickman, taking his degrees with honors. Fluent in Mandarin, he spent two years as a curatorial assistant and translator in the Department of Painting and Calligraphy at the National Palace Museum, Taipei (1975-1977). His career is distinguished with many pioneering leadership roles and ground-breaking scholarship. He was founding Curator of the Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd Collection at The Asia Society, New York (1980-1986), and, before that, Assistant Curator of Oriental Art at Harvard’s Fogg Art Museum (1977-1980).
Mowry is a popular speaker, consultant and author in his many areas of expertise, which include Chinese and Korean ceramics, Chinese painting of the Song, Yuan and Ming periods, Chinese jade, Chinese scholar’s materials, and Korean paintings. Among his many articles, catalogues, textbooks and books, perhaps his best known is Hare’s Fur, Tortoiseshell, and Partridge Feathers: Chinese Brown- and Black-Glazed Ceramics, 400-1400 (Harvard University Art Museums, 1996), the catalogue for an exhibition that he curated and that opened at Harvard’s Arthur M. Sackler Museum in December 1995 and then toured nationally in 1996. He also is the curator of and principal catalogue author for Worlds Within Worlds: The Richard Rosenblum Collection of Chinese Scholars’ Rocks (1997), another exhibition he organized.
An award-winning sculptor and installation artist, Ahn incorporates lights, sounds, and movement into his work and seeks to find the human spirit within the results of mankind’s experiments with Utopia.
This exhibition is presented in collaboration with the Dongwha Cultural Foundation.
Dive deep into the K-Beauty world with Soko Glam co-founders Charlotte and Dave Cho. The evening will begin with a panel discussion led by Vogue editor Monica Kim about Chos’ journey with Soko Glam and The Klog, and how their company has become the destination for everything K-Beauty.
The first thirty to register for the event will receive a goodie bag with Korean beauty products and a discount code to use on SOKO GLAM.
Three lucky guests win a signed copy of Charlotte’s book, The Little Book of Skin Care: Korean Beauty Secrets for Healthy, Glowing Skin.
K-Beauty Guru: Charlotte Cho from SOKO GLAM
Thursday, November 17, 2016 | 6 PM
About the Speakers
Charlotte Cho An expert on all things Korean skin care, Charlotte Cho is the board-certified esthetician behind Soko Glam, a beauty and lifestyle shop that offers the best Korean beauty products. Charlotte has been featured in national and international publications including the New York Times, Vogue, Allure, Marie Claire, Into the Gloss, and Refinery29. She is the author of The Little Book of Skincare: Korean Beauty Secrets for Healthy, Glowing Skin (HarperCollins). With Korean beauty culture exploding in popularity, Charlotte has been sought out for her expert advice and insight on the tenets of Korean skin care. She writes for publications such as Elle.com and has partnered with companies such as Sephora, Birchbox, Urban Outfitters, and AmorePacific as their K-beauty expert.
Dave Cho Dave Cho is Co-Founder and CEO of Soko Glam, a lifestyle brand and ecommerce beauty destination that offers the best selection of Korean beauty products and content. A military veteran with over a decade of experience building and leading teams, Dave spent more than eight years on active duty in the U.S. Army, including a deployment to Iraq. Dave is a graduate of Columbia Business School, TechStars Patriot Bootcamp, and was selected as a 2015 Lang Fund venture.
The 14th Annual New York Korean Film Festival Announces Upcoming Program for November 11th to November 13th, 2016 at the Museum of the Moving Image.
(New York, October 26, 2016) The Korea Society’s New York Korean Film Festival returns to New York City’s Museum of the Moving Image on November 11 to 13 for its yearly celebration of the best in Korean cinema. This 14th edition of the Festival focuses on the family, as moms, dads, children, and grandparents struggle to survive the zombie apocalypse, law school exams, ambitious aristocrats, and secret societies. South Korea’s 2016 Oscar submission and American premieres make for a not-to-be-missed showcase of one of the world’s most dynamic national cinemas.
Train to Busan (부산행) FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2016 | 7 PM Korea, Dir. Yeon Sang-ho, 2016, 118min, With Gong Yoo, Kim Soo-An, Jeong Yu-mi, Ma Dong-seok
The Map against the World (고산자: 대동여지도) SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2016 | 2 PM Korea, Dir. Kang Woo-Suk, 2016, 129 min, With Cha Seung-Won, You Jun-Sang, Kim In-Kwon, Nam Ji-Hyun
Phantom Detective (탐정 홍길동: 사라진마을) SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2016 | 4:30 PM Korea, Dir. Jo Sung-hee, 2016, 125 min, With Lee Je-hoon, Go Ara, Kim Seong-Gyoon
Sori: Voice from the Heart (로봇, 소리) SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2016 | 7 PM New York Premiere Korea, Dir. Lee Ho-Jae, 2016, 117 min, With Lee Sung-Min, Lee Hee-Jun, Lee Honey
Familyhood (굿바이 싱글) SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2016 | 2 PM New York Premiere Korea, 2016, Dir. Kim Tae-Gon, 119 mins, With Kim Hye-Soo, Ma Dong-Seok
The Queen of Crime (범죄의 여왕) SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2016 | 4:30 PM North America Premiere Korea, 2016, 130 mins, Dir. Lee Yo-Sup, With Park Ji-Young, Jo Bok-Rae, Kim Dae-Hyeon
The Age of Shadows (밀정) SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2016 | 7 PM Korea, Dir. Kim Jee-Woon, 2016, 140min, with Song Kang-Ho, Gong Yoo, Han Ji-Min
ABOUT THE KOREA SOCIETY
The Korea Society is a private, nonprofit, nonpartisan organization dedicated solely to the promotion of greater awareness, understanding, and cooperation between the people of the United States and Korea.
ABOUT MUSEUM OF THE MOVING IMAGE
Museum of the Moving Image (movingimage.us) advances the understanding, enjoyment, and appreciation of the art, history, technique, and technology of film, television, and digital media. In its stunning facilities—acclaimed for both its accessibility and bold design—the Museum presents exhibitions; screenings of significant works; discussion programs featuring actors, directors, craftspeople, and business leaders; and education programs which serve more than 50,000 students each year. The Museum also houses a significant collection of moving-image artifacts.
Major support provided by the Korea Foundation.
This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in Partnership with the City Council.
If you have any questions, please contact Luz Lanzot or (212) 759-7525, ext. 309.
This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in Partnership with the City Council.
About the Artists
Lucite Tokki is a Seoul-based female pop duo formed in 2005. The group consists of Sun Young Kim and Ye Jin Cho. They first met in college during a music-writing course. Over a decade later, they have released four full albums and six EPs, and have a worldwide following.
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