Centre Pompidou Opens First South Korea Branch in Seoul
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Paris's Centre Pompidou officially opened its Seoul outpost on Thursday, and the institution chose a fitting subject for its debut: Cubism, the movement that fractured the visible world and put it back together in ways no one had seen before. The exhibition brings together work by 54 artists, paintings and sculptures that trace the early 20th-century revolution in form that began in Paris and spread everywhere. The Seoul venue, called Centre Pompidou Hanwha, is the French museum's first permanent presence in South Korea and one of the more consequential stops in its Constellation programme, a global lending initiative born of practical necessity. The Paris flagship is currently shut for a five-year renovation, and rather than simply go dark, the Pompidou has been distributing its collection to international partners in the interim. Seoul joins that network as a major anchor, giving Korean audiences direct access to European modernist works that would otherwise be sitting in storage. The opening signals how seriously the Pompidou is treating this outpost period, not as a stopgap but as a genuine cultural expansion with its own programming identity.
The Print Center in Philadelphia presents America Today: Voices in Contemporary Print, featuring artists who harness the power of printmaking to amplify their voices and engage directly with the issues that shape American society.
On the occasion of the nation’s 250th anniversary, amid today’s tumultuous political environment, artists readily contend with the fundamental principles of the common good, civil rights, social justice, and political engagement. Individual prints reference a range of topics, community histories, political actions, systemic violence, and cultural heritage, in a wide variety of styles. They make a crucial contribution to conversations about our collective past, present, and future.
The prints presented are drawn from six printmaking workshops, which are not only sites of creation but also vital gathering places. These studios are unique among all those in the US in their commitment to building communities and supporting artists as outspoken advocates for their own realities. The printshops are Brandywine Workshop and Archives, Philadelphia, PA; Coronado Print Studio, Austin, TX; Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts, Pendleton, OR; EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, New York, NY; Self Help Graphics & Art, Los Angeles, CA; and the Women’s Studio Workshop, Kingston, NY.
The exhibiting artists in America Today are Natalie Ball, Chakaia Booker, Alex Callender, Raven Chacon, Pepe Coronado, Lizania Cruz, Laurie Darby, Ka’ila Farrell-Smith, Sandra Fernández, Consuelo Flores, Luis-Genaro Garcia, Melissa Govea, kimi malka hanauer, Priscilla Hernandez, Kate Horvat, Sedrick Huckaby, Benito Huerta, KaKeArt (Ann E. Kalmbach and Tatana Kellner), Baseera Khan, Lehuauakea, José Lozano, Cannupa Hanska Luger, Álvaro D. Márquez, Dindga McCannon, Glendalys Medina, Ayanah Moor, Odili Donald Odita, Howardena Pindell, Robert Pruitt, Wendy Red Star, Karen Revis, Kenny Rivero, Yelaine Rodriguez, Sky Syzygy, Marie Watt, Michael Kelly Williams and Tona Wilson.
America Today: Voices in Contemporary Print has been supported by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage.
To learn more, visit printcenter.org.