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wylies99 · Joined: 13 May 2006 Location: I'm one cool cat!

http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2913662

In an exhibit titled �Andy Warhol, the Greatest,� the Seoul Museum of Art in central Seoul will present 110 of Warhol�s portraits of celebrities including Michael Jackson, The Beatles, Muhammad Ali and Andy Warhol himself. The exhibit also includes his more commercial pieces including �Coca-Cola,� �Brillo Boxes� and �Campbell�s Soup Can� as well as some of his more abstract works. There will also be hundreds of documentary materials including books and photos of Warhol. The works in the exhibition are from The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh in the United States and from an exhibition titled �Le Grand Monde d�Andy Warhol� at the Grand Palais in Paris, France, in March.

The exhibition starts on Saturday, (December 12), and continues through April 4. Hours are 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. on weekdays. On weekends, hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. from December to February and 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. from March to April. Closed Mondays. Admission is 8,000 won ($7) to 12,000 won. Go to City Hall Station, line No. 2, exit 10. For details, call the museum at (02) 120 or visit http://seoulmoa.seoul.go.kr/.

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Gnawbert · Joined: 23 Oct 2007 Location: The Internet

Very cool! Thanks for the heads up!

adjective_noun · Posted: Tue Dec 08, 2009 9:47 pm Post subject:

Awesome! This is definitely worth a trip up from Busan.

Extra question: Where do you get your information about arts events from?

wylies99 · Joined: 13 May 2006 Location: I'm one cool cat!

asams · Joined: 17 Nov 2008

Saw some posters advertising this last night and I'm pretty pumped. Seoul has a lot of cool stuff going on if they would just advertise a little better.

vaticanhotline · Posted: Tue Dec 08, 2009 10:18 pm Post subject:

Do you know of anything else along the same lines? I'm already getting tired of going up to Seoul just to drink buckets of gin.

wylies99 · Joined: 13 May 2006 Location: I'm one cool cat!

This newspaper does a better job than most of covering events.

http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/list.asp?cat_code=02

dalem · Joined: 30 Dec 2008

this sounds great. I've already seen his work, but my man hasn't. We'll have to go sometime. thanks for the heads up Smile

HapKi · Joined: 10 Dec 2004 Location: TALL BUILDING-SEOUL

dalem · Joined: 30 Dec 2008

Hunh... wow! This really is an impressive group of rather well known paintings. I wonder how this is presented.... just like a big group of famous paintings or will there be some kind of presentation plan and thread through the exhibit?

Very curious about this.

HapKi · Joined: 10 Dec 2004 Location: TALL BUILDING-SEOUL

Correction- the Warhol collection is on loan from the The Andy Warhol Museum, in Pittsburgh.

morrisonhotel · Joined: 18 Jul 2009 Location: Gyeonggi-do

Went to the exhibition today. Well worth the trip to Seoul!

sojusucks · Joined: 31 May 2008

sojusucks · Joined: 31 May 2008

I love museums. More importantly, don't miss this opportunity to be exposed to great art.

proustme · Joined: 13 Jun 2009 Location: Nowon-gu

Sadly, Seoul really only puts on the usual artists you've likely already seen. The Samsung Leeum Museum of Art in Hannam-dong, Itaewon, had a huge exhibit of Warhol two years ago. It seems only big name artists get put on stage in Korea. Ah, well.

http://www.carnegiemuseums.org/cmag/article.php?id=24