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ART OnO 2024 // April 18–21, 2024

HONG KONG -- Art Basel Hong Kong returned in full form last year to the excitement of the art community. This year, the fair is showing a steep recovery curve, with the number of participating galleries reaching 242, up from last year's 177. The 37 percent increase indicates a return to the show’s pre-pandemic scale, matching the 242 galleries that participated in 2019. Art Basel’s 2024 Hong Kong edi...

How can a 21st-century visual artist, who seldom leaves the confines of his studio, become a 19th-century plein-air painter who seeks out his subjects in the great outdoors?

Our 2023 printable events guide is the go-to Frieze and Frieze week collateral crib sheet. We will be updating information daily.

More than 70,000 visitors, drawn from 36 countries, passed through the halls of this year's inspiring second edition of Frieze Seoul. Hosted inside of the COEX mega-complex, a few floors above the Galleries Association of Korea's Kiaf SEOUL art fair, Frieze paired leading South Korean institutions with a diverse range of exhibitors from international art…

South Korea's largest art market is set to open in Seoul on Wednesday with over 330 galleries at home and abroad presenting their artworks at Frieze Seoul along with local fair Kiaf.

Following last year’s success of its inaugural edition in the burgeoning new art capital, Frieze Seoul 2023 launches today (6 September 2023) amid great enthusiasm, in COEX, an exhibition hall

The world functions in dynamics of power and hierarchy. Although such power is sensed from time to time, it is hard to recognize sometimes. That power could be religion, natural forces or something else, artist Lee Jae-seok muses. Most of Lee's works were inspired by his experience during his mandatory military service from 2010 to 2012 that lasted for a year and 10 months. “I was 22 years old when I enter...

Painter Kim Bo-hie's solo exhibition at the Kumho Museum of Art in 2020 drew a huge crowd after her paintings went viral on social media. People formed long lines just to get into the museum in search of some comfort from her work, which depicts the nature of Jeju Island. The exhibition earned her popularity among a wider audience. In the latest exhibition, “Towards,” at Gallery Baton in Hannam-dong,...

Following its successful debut in Asia last year, Frieze Seoul is set to return this September with a stronger lineup of Asia-based galleries for its second edition.