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princess
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: soul of Asia
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 Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 6:33 am Post subject: Louvre Exhibit |
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| Who else here saw this at the National Museum of Korea in Ichon? I went last Sunday. It was good, but it could have been better. There were signs out front telling people to turn off their cellies, or at least put them on vibration mode. Well, inside there were screaming kids and kids running around. That's worse than handphones. May as well have not had the cell phone rule. Too bad, the Mona Lisa was not sent over. At the end of the exhibit, there was a cheesy area set up selling souvenir type things and reproductions of the paintings...as in OVERPRICED! Good, but could have been better. |
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Sine qua non
Joined: 18 Feb 2007
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| Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 6:47 am Post subject: |
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Totally!
The Louvre exhibit blew big donkey balls! There were only like 100 paintings and it cost 10,000 won to get in. Plus, there were no famous paintings, like you mentioned.
Remember Guys on Film?
"Louvre exhibit? Hated it."
Check out the Magritte by City Hall station, down the road beside Duksugung (Duksu Palace). For 10,000 won, there are many more paintings and other pieces from Rene Magritte on display.
Also, the Picasso to van Gogh display at the Seoul Arts Center was great. Even though it was 13,000 won, it was worth the money and much better than the Louvre display.
Me and my friends felt like we got ripped off at the Louvre display. If the Korean National Museum of Art is going to have a display like they had, they really MUST indicate that the items on loan from the Lourve are a tiny, tiny, tiny fraction of the Louvre's collection.
Ripped off, big time. |
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princess
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: soul of Asia
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| Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 6:53 am Post subject: |
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Yes, Sine qua non, I really must check out the Picasso/van Gogh exhibit. I love van Gogh. I'm sure it will be better because the Seoul Arts Center has pleased me in the past. I went to last year's Barbie show there and it was great!  |
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huffdaddy
Joined: 25 Nov 2005
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| Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 6:54 am Post subject: |
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| Sine qua non wrote: |
Check out the Magritte by City Hall station, down the road beside Duksugung (Duksu Palace). For 10,000 won, there are many more paintings and other pieces from Rene Magritte on display. |
I've been to the last couple of big exhibits at the Seoul Musuem of Art. Both have been major headaches. There's absolutely no crowd restraint, the signs are almost impossible to read, and there's very little information on the individual works. Sure, they have a nice collection of works there. But what good is it if you're packed in like a sardine squinting at white on peach French text. The special exhibit on the first floor was way better. I forget who it was, and they've already moved to something else though. |
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SarcasmKills
Joined: 07 Apr 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 7:37 am Post subject: |
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One of my roommates and his gf came back from the exhibit pissed... Apparently not only was the exhibit weak, but the kids running around freely and people ignoring the barriers set them off..
Plus they said the place looks like a communist tomb...
I'll pass.
Went to the Magrite exhibit a couple of weekends back.. it was decent... |
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blaseblasphemener
Joined: 01 Jun 2006
Location: There's a voice, keeps on calling me, down the road, that's where I'll always be
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| Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 7:43 am Post subject: |
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| Sine qua non wrote: |
Totally!
The Louvre exhibit blew big donkey balls! There were only like 100 paintings and it cost 10,000 won to get in. Plus, there were no famous paintings, like you mentioned.
Remember Guys on Film?
"Louvre exhibit? Hated it."
Check out the Magritte by City Hall station, down the road beside Duksugung (Duksu Palace). For 10,000 won, there are many more paintings and other pieces from Rene Magritte on display.
Also, the Picasso to van Gogh display at the Seoul Arts Center was great. Even though it was 13,000 won, it was worth the money and much better than the Louvre display.
Me and my friends felt like we got ripped off at the Louvre display. If the Korean National Museum of Art is going to have a display like they had, they really MUST indicate that the items on loan from the Lourve are a tiny, tiny, tiny fraction of the Louvre's collection.Ripped off, big time. |
Well, considering it's like 2 km around the Louvre, and it's the largest museum in the world, I think it goes without saying, that it's a small fraction. Anyway, unlike with peni, it's not the size, it's the quality, that counts.  |
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rothkowitz
Joined: 27 Apr 2006
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| Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 4:52 pm Post subject: |
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Large museums just make me groggy.
I find I have to find out about what they have beforehand and just hunt that stuff out.
Museums are awful places to go on the weekend,Korea especially.They seem to regard it as something akin to a walk in the park,as opposed to a real object library of sorts.
Same with the cinema here.I just won't go in peak time,if at all.I always end up sitting next to someone who starts smacking away on KFC. |
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Sine qua non
Joined: 18 Feb 2007
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| Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 11:33 pm Post subject: |
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| Does anyone know of any other exhibitions opening in the future? |
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seethetraffic
Joined: 22 Nov 2005
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2007 5:48 am Post subject: |
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The "Van Gogh to Picasso" exhibit is showing at
Seoul Art Center's Hangaram Art Museum. The
exhibit includes works by Cezanne, Gaugin,
Renoir, Monet and Munch.
Looks like a real treasure trove of the kind of art I like.
I'm not sure why I didn't see this show listed anywhere
before a few days ago.
http://www.sac.or.kr/eng/program/Daily.jsp
http://gogh.chosun.com/english/main.htm |
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hogwonguy1979
Joined: 22 Dec 2003
Location: the racoon den
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| Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2007 6:02 am Post subject: |
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we went yesterday, mob scene, why do people bring small kids to these things.
i'm not an art person but my wife is. she said it was ok at best, she didn't think the quality was that great, seems like they sent the second string artists and artwork, not like though she was expecting the mona lisa etc. it was interesting imho, not a bad way to kill 90 minutes on a lousy weather day
she thought the chagal exhibit a couple of years ago over by city hall was fantastic so maybe that place has better funding/connections etc |
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Corporal
Joined: 25 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2007 6:06 am Post subject: |
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| hogwonguy1979 wrote: |
| why do people bring small kids to these things. |
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