Korean art of the ’60s and ’70s at the Hammer Museum: review

[ad_1] Seoul is the latest major city to establish itself as a significant international hub for new art. With that distinction comes the expected propagation of ambitious museum exhibitions seeking to articulate, illuminate and cogitate over its local history of modern art, which is little known. “Only the Young: Experimental Art in Korea, 1960s-1970s” is… Continue reading Korean art of the ’60s and ’70s at the Hammer Museum: review

‘Carol Doda Topless at the Condor’ pays buoyant tribute to ’60s icon

[ad_1] San Francisco’s own Botticelli’s Venus was nightclub dancing goddess Carol Doda, her scallop shell a white baby grand piano supported by hydraulics and descending from a hole in the ceiling rather than surfacing from the sea. But also, in perhaps the key difference from that painting, hardly so modest as to cover her breasts… Continue reading ‘Carol Doda Topless at the Condor’ pays buoyant tribute to ’60s icon