Korean pop art gets forum at LACMA
"Your Bright Future: 12 Contemporary Artists From Korea," opening June 28 at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, is loaded with surprises for those among the art crowd who haven't paid much attention to Korea. And that includes all too many of us.
Even Lynn Zelevansky, a widely traveled LACMA curator who organized the exhibition with Christine Starkman, curator of Asian art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, says that she was "absolutely not aware" of South Korean contemporary art until she started thinking about a potential show.
"That was one of the things that started to interest me," she says. "I went there for the first time and thought, 'Why have I never thought about this place?' I felt that I was seeing a very credible, small but high-level, sophisticated art world and meeting really good artists."
-- Suzanne Muchnic
