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Washington Post
09-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Washington Post
31 artists for 31 visions of Korean American experience
'Soaring (Narsha),' a showcase for local Korean American artists, takes its title from a 1447 epic poem. It was the first literary work composed in Hangul, the Korean phonetic writing system introduced a mere four years before. The reference to the nearly 600-year-old opus might suggest that 'Soaring' ('Narsha' in archaic Korean) is rooted deeply in tradition. But this American University Museum exhibition, which marks the 50th anniversary of the Han-Mee Artists Association of Greater Washington, derives as much from the United States ('Meeguk') as Korea ('Hanguk').
Washington Post
23-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Washington Post
A small, rewarding slice of D.C.'s legendary Corcoran art collection
Although it encompasses only 11 paintings, 'Alone, Together: Viewpoints From the Corcoran Legacy Collection' does invite multiple perspectives. The artworks in the American University Museum exhibition fit together neatly in several ways, stylistic as well as thematic. This is the fourth show in a series, begun in 2019, in which the university's curatorial practice students explore works from the erstwhile Corcoran Gallery of Art. American's museum received nearly 9,000 objects from the Corcoran four years after its 2014 closure. The current show was selected by 15 students, some of whom share their thoughts on the works in a brochure.
