The Korean government has just launched a five-year plan to allow higher accessibility of Korean art and artifacts to the general public. It includes the addition of art galleries and museums, expansion of the conservation system for the collections as well as the creation of online and mobile systems for people to acquire information on exhibitions. The National Museum of Korea Addition of Art Galleries It is planned that an addition of 140 museums and 46 art galleries will

The museum’s first dedicated exhibition to the subject will present a transnational and interdisciplinary perspective on ink art from the 1960s to the present. ‘Ink art’ generally refers to artistic concepts and expressions in dialogue with the Asian tradition of ink painting and calligraphy, and the exhibition will reflect how ink art is not merely a medium, but an aesthetic integral to contemporary visual culture. Organised thematically, the exhibition features works taken

Gong Xin, museum curator at the Shanghai Museum, explains how bureaucracy and a culture of snobbery holds cultural institutions back from producing world-class exhibitions. Read the full story at Sixth Tone: http://www.sixthtone.com/news/1000803/why-chinese-museums-struggle-to-export-their-exhibitions# "Chinese museum curators hold a monopoly over the use of the museum’s collections. They alone reserve the right to bring artifacts out of storage. Others in the museum hierarch

Ugo Rondinone’s Miami Mountain (2016). The Bass, Miami Beach The Bass Museum in Miami Beach does not think about collecting the same way it did two years ago. Situated in a region where sea level rise has tripled over the past decade and located a short walk from rapidly eroding beaches, the Bass has been forced to reckon with climate change more directly than most museums. “Do we feel comfortable purchasing a very humidity-sensitive watercolor for our collection? Or a light-

The Palace Museum's Meridian Gate (Wu Men) plays host to an exhibition recounting the important role of the Maritime Silk Road in facilitating cultural communication between China and the West. "The Forbidden City and the Maritime Silk Road" (May 9 - August 13, 2017) explores how the imperial families of the Ming (1368-1644) and Qing dynasties interacted with the outside world. The cultural exchanges are presented in three sections, starting with items China sent to other cou

Ringling Museum Center for Asian Arts ​​ ​The John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art has hired Rhiannon Paget as its new curator of Asian art. She will “oversee Asian art exhibitions and collections, including publications, collection development and research” at the center for arts in Sarasota, Florida, according to a statement from the museum. She arrives from the Saint Louis Art Museum, where has held the position of Andrew W. Mellon Fellow for Japanese Art. [Art News] #news

Chicago's Field Museum has bottled the beer in collaboration with Off Color Brewing. Crossing cultures and centuries to recreate flavors from ancient Chinese alcohols was a challenge for Off Color Brewing. While sourcing ingredients Laffler found that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration deemed some of the ingredients and flavorings necessary for brewing the alcohols are not currently legal.The end result of the Off Color brewing process is a modern recreation of Chang and a

One of hundreds of thousands of unearthed oracle bones at the National Museum of Chinese Writing The National Museum of Chinese Writing in Anyang, Henan province, has issued a worldwide appeal for help to decipher thousands of esoteric characters cut into bones and shells dating back more than 3,000 years to the Shang dynasty. [South China Morning Post] They’re offering 100,000 yuan (~$15,000) for each unknown character a person can translate (with evidence). A sum of 50,000

Beneath the surface of an extraordinary Chinese ceramic ware known in the West as “numbered Jun” is a story of both technical and historical complexity. Numbered Jun are related to the celebrated group of Song dynasty (960–1279) ceramics called Jun ware, renowned for its opalescent blue glaze often enhanced with purple. While numbered Jun share a similar glaze and color palette to classic Jun, they are distinguished by a well-defined array of sophisticated forms and by marks

For his last public appearance as director of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, Thomas Campbell speaks at Hong Kong's Museum Summit 2017 on challenges facing museums in the digital era, and reflects on the controversial conclusion of his tenure. Read the full report by Enid Tsui at the Post Magazine. #museum #newyork #museumsummit