Tag: Gallery Talks

Our Toys, Our Selves: Robot Taekwon V and South Korean Identity

    On February 7, 2008, Aaron Han Joon Magnan-Park, an assistant professor in the Department of Film, Television and Theatre at the University of

Toy Stories: Souvenirs from Korean Childhood

  Exhibition January 31–April 18, 2008 Toys are always more meaningful than the simple playthings they appear to be. They can embody the fantasies, values,

Korean Funerary Figures: Companions for the Journey to the Other World

Exhibition July 26, 2007 – December 18, 2007 “… eye-catching.” – New York Times Art Review, “Korea’s Extraordinary Send-Offs for Ordinary People”, August 17, 2007

Exhibiting Korea

A New, Monthly Series of Gallery Talk Programs May 24 – November 16, 2007 Exhibiting Korea, a new monthly series of presentations on the fine

The Meaning of Dragons in Korean Folklore

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

A State of Mind: Life in North Korea

  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,