WATERLOO – Artist Kim Behm’s recent painting of a dusky early morning in Arizona’s Santa Catalina foothills is a departure from his other works featured in the Hawkeye Art Gallery. Artist Kim Behm stands among his oil paintings on display at the Hawkeye Art Gallery. CHRIS ZOELLER, Courier Staff Photographer “A Crowded Planet, works by Kim Behm” features 15 pieces with eight richly detailed ...
New York-based artist Ji Woo Kim’s work explores themes of identity in the context of race and ethnicity while questioning the concept of home in relation to her own background as a first-generation immigrant. Through her works she examines resulting factors such as cultural identification and social dynamics, as well as their effects on one’s growth from childhood through adulthood.Recently, I had the chance to ...
Christine Y. Kim, one of the most closely watched curators in the U.S., will join the Tate museum network as a curator-at-large, based in Los Angeles and New York. For more than a decade, Kim has been at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, where she established herself as a force within the city’s art scene. Kim’s curatorial credits at LACMA include two ...
Sunjung Kim, who has served as president of the Gwangju Biennale Foundation since 2017, will leave her post at the organization that runs South Korea’s most notable biennial when her contract expires at the end of June. According to a report by ArtAsiaPacific, the decision to replace Kim follows her alleged misconduct detailed by the Gwangju Biennale Labor Union in April. The foundation is ...
Earlier this week, it was reported that Kim Kardashian West was named in a civil suit filed by the U.S. government alleging she was the intended recipient of an illegally imported ancient Roman sculpture. Federal agents seized the sculpture in 2016 when it entered the U.S. and are now seeking its forfeiture. According to the complaint, officials from Italy have examined the sculpture and ...
A newly filed lawsuit reveals that, in 2016, the U.S. government seized an ancient Roman statue that was allegedly being delivered to Kim Kardashian. In the suit, filed on April 30 in the United States District Court of Central California’s Western Division, the U.S. government called for the forfeiture of the “illegally imported” statue, which resembles the lower half of a person draped in fabric. ...
The designer Kim Markel only launched her studio in 2016, but her work is already instantly recognizable, the rare deserving subject of the word iconic. Her “Glow” collection is a series of ethereal chairs, stools, and small tables that look like captured rainbows or the light glinting off a window in the dawn or sunset. She created a unique process for fabricating the pieces ...
By ANDREW DALTON | AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES — “Kimye” is kaput. Kim Kardashian West filed for divorce from Kanye West Friday after 6 1/2 years of marriage, court records show. The move brings an impending end to one of the most followed celebrity unions of the 21st century — the marriage of a reality TV superstar and a hip-hop and fashion phenomenon ...
Wonsook Kim with the faculty who shaped her journey. Left to right, Ken Holder, Harold Gregor, Wonsook Kim, and Harold Boyd. Photo taken at the fall 2016 University Galleries exhibition Wonsook Kim: Lines of Enchantment. Illinois State University Wonsook Kim School of Art announces three faculty members as the first recipients of endowed professorships named in honor of Professors Emeriti Harold Boyd, Harold Gregor, ...
