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In Seoul, the renowned contemporary art fair will no longer take place at the Korea Exhibition Center (COEX). Starting in 2027, Frieze Seoul will move to the Dongdaemun Design Plaza (DDP), the iconic multi-functional complex…

Yayoi Kusama, born in Matsumoto, Japan, in 1929, had an unhappy childhood marked by hallucinations that she channeled into her art. Rejecting her conservative upbringing, she left Japan for New York in 1958, where her…

Mother Nature smiled on the final days of the 11th annual StrawFest Sculpting Contest in Mt. Morris on Aug. 22-23. Five teams of two competed in the Straw Bale Races on Wesley Avenue, with Jake…

Yayoi Kusama, the Japanese outsider artist who became a global superstar after decades living in a psychiatric hospital, has died at the age of 97. She passed away in a Tokyo hospital on 14 August….

SUFFOLK, Va. — A peanut sculpture has been created for Suffolk, marking the beginning of the Suffolk Peanut Project. This initiative seeks to install peanut statues throughout the city, celebrating Suffolk’s historical ties to peanut…

I n the early 1970s, the Korean artist Ha Chong-Hyun had a simple but novel idea: why not apply oil paint to the back of a surface rather than the front? Instead of canvas, he…

The South African photographer Jillian Edelstein documented her country’s harrowing Truth and Reconciliation Commission. These pictures form part of a new exhibition titled *Among People*, which includes a number of rarely seen early works. Born…