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Korea Herald
23-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Korea Herald
Frieze to bring underrepresented LGBTQ+ art to the fore in Seoul
Global art fair to collaborate with Seoul museums for Frieze Live, Frieze Film Seoul's art scene is set to receive its annual injection of fresh energy this fall with a series of art events during Frieze Week. This year, topics exploring queer identity — largely consigned to the margins here — will be highlighted in some of the art fair's main events. Frieze Seoul, which runs Sept. 3 to 6 at Coex in Gangnam-gu, southern Seoul, returns for its fourth edition with more than 120 galleries from nearly 30 countries and a full program of live art, performances, films, talks and special artist projects. The global art fair collaborates with Kiaf Seoul, an art fair organized by the Galleries Association of Korea. 'This year's program at Frieze Seoul speaks to the extraordinary depth and breadth of Korea's contemporary art landscape, while also welcoming global perspectives that challenge and expand our ways of seeing,' said Frieze Seoul Director Patrick Lee in a statement on Wednesday. Frieze Live, the fair's platform for live art and performance, will focus in particular on female and genderqueer practitioners this year. Related events featuring 11 artists and collectives will be held at Coex and other venues in Seoul and in partnership with Art Sonje Center. One such Frieze Live event is the exhibition, 'off-site 2: Eleven Episodes,' from Aug. 26 to Oct. 26 at Art Sonje Center. Additional performances will be taking place at Kukje Gallery, and (Together)(Together) in Jongno-gu, Seoul as well as Dosan Park in Seoul's Sinsa-dong. Through performance, installation and moving image, the 11 participating artists — Yagwang, Chang Yeong-hae, Hah Ji-min, Kwak So-jin, Ru Kim and others — will explore themes of identity, embodiment and belonging, offering reflections on the social conditions and lived experiences shaping contemporary Korean art, according to Frieze. Frieze Film and Seoul Museum of Art will collaborate on the 13th edition of the Seoul Mediacity Biennale, curating a series of screenings and talks on the museum's rooftop. Open to the public from Sept. 2 to 4, the program aims to show a diverse group of international artists whose time-based works navigate occult, mystical and spiritual traditions. Talks with artists, curators and experts will be held at Coex from Sept.4 to 6, organized by Frieze, Kiaf and Korea Arts Management Service. Discussion topics covered will include the intersection of queer Asian identity and digital memory; the evolving role of foundations in supporting the arts; and the challenges faced by emerging galleries in a rapidly shifting landscape.
Yahoo
15-07-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Deltatre Acquires Endeavor Streaming
Deltatre, the international provider of streaming, digital, data, and graphics solutions for the sports, media, and entertainment industries, will acquire Endeavor Streaming from Endeavor Group Holdings, Inc., the company announced on Tuesday. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but Deltatre said it will be joining its product suite that includes D3 VOLT, FORGE and AXIS with Endeavor Streaming's pure-play OTT product VESPER to create a 'digital and streaming platform leader.' More from TheWrap News Corp Authorizes New $1 Billion Stock Buyback Program Deltatre Acquires Endeavor Streaming A Crackdown on the $10 Billion Drug Ad Market Could Hammer Linear TV CAA, Comcast Ventures Join $84 Million Funding Round for AI Firm Moonvalley As part of the acquisition, the companies will also unite their digital strategy, consulting, and direct-to-consumer growth marketing services. The transaction is expected to close in the third quarter of 2025, subject to customary closing conditions. The joint portfolio of clients includes the NFL, UFC, Sky, Rogers, NBA, WWE, MLB, BritBox, Bell Media, LIV Golf, ICC, World Rugby, and UEFA. 'Together, we are extremely well-positioned to lead at every level of the industry – and this investment underscores our commitment to broadening the value we bring to existing and future clients. Endeavor Streaming is a highly respected player in our industry and its offerings are a natural complement to our existing products and services,' said Andrea Marini, CEO of Deltatre. 'Endeavor Streaming has established itself as a trusted partner to the world's largest sports and media companies, as they transition their businesses from linear-driven experiences into a direct-to-consumer driven future,' said Fred Santarpia, President of Endeavor Streaming. 'With Deltatre, we look forward to delivering even greater opportunities to create value for our partners in growing audiences and revenue.' This news comes after Silver Lake closed its $25 billion deal to take Endeavor private in March. Endeavor first started exploring a potential sale of some of its events, including Frieze, the Miami Open and Madrid Open tennis tournaments, back in October. Endeavor also sold On Location, Professional Bull Riders and IMG to TKO Group Holdings in a $3.25 billion all-equity deal. Additionally, former Endeavor executive chairman Patrick Whitesell bought WME Sport's football division. Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP is serving as legal advisor to Deltatre, and New Deal Advisors SpA is acting as its financial advisor. Latham & Watkins LLP is serving as legal advisor to Endeavor Group Holdings, Inc., and The Raine Group is acting as its financial advisor. The post Deltatre Acquires Endeavor Streaming appeared first on TheWrap. Sign in to access your portfolio
Korea Herald
10-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Korea Herald
With Chanel funding, Korean artists to create video series for Frieze Seoul
Luxury fashion house, Frieze Seoul collaborate to create 'Now & Next,' exploring practices of different generations of Korean artists Chanel and Frieze announced on Thursday the artists for the fourth edition of 'Now & Next,' a video series dedicated to spotlighting established and emerging Korean artists, ahead of Frieze Seoul in September. The six selected artists of different generations and backgrounds — Kim Yun-chul, Kim So-jung, Kim Bo-hie, Chung Yu-mi, Lee Jin-ju and Lim No-sik — will be paired into groups of two for the 'now' and 'next' of each episode, sharing their artistic practices, inspirations and culture in Korea through conversation. Kim Yun-chul merges technology with art to produce installations, audio works and multimedia creations. Jun So-jung uses video and writing to explore contemporary aesthetics and political themes. Kim Bo-hie creates paintings based on Korean traditional painting techniques, depicting scenes from nature. Chung Yu-mi pursues traditional methodologies to paint abstract landscapes, reflecting on memory and imagination. Lee Jin-ju creates uncanny scenes from the unconscious and re-creates memories of daily life through a unique painting style inspired by East Asian cultures. Lim No-sik explores the act of witnessing the invisible through the process of painting. The initiative aims to spotlight Korean artists who are pushing the boundaries of contemporary art, inspired by the spirit of Gabrielle Chanel, founder of Chanel, who said 'I want to be part of what happens next,' according to the fashion company. The three episodes of 'Now & Next' will be shown on the Frieze website close to the Frieze Seoul opening. The fourth edition of Frieze Seoul will run Sept. 3 to 6 at Coex in Gangnam, southern Seoul, with 120 galleries from around the world participating.
Boston Globe
07-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Boston Globe
Günther Uecker, who punctuated his art with nails, dies at 95
In 1957, he hammered nails into the edges of a yellow monochrome painting so that they stuck out like spines or thorns. Those were the first of thousands more nails he would go on to hammer — into columns, wooden spheres, chairs, televisions, and canvases painted white. Like other artists in the broader movement he spearheaded with Mack and Piene, Mr. Uecker wanted his materials, and the purity of a simple gesture, to speak for themselves. Get Starting Point A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday. Enter Email Sign Up Mr. Uecker's approach was rich with symbolic and philosophical resonance. It made visible the sustained, almost violent effort it takes to shape the world with one's hands, and the power of repetition to bring about complexity. Every nail rose from its surface in a rigid, invariant line, but together they also cast shadows, formed intricate patterns, and stood at various angles. They even had room for the kind of expressive gestures Mr. Uecker and his colleagues had ostensibly rejected: In his 5-foot-square 'White Bird,' made in 1964, hundreds of nails driven into a white canvas resembled both a flock of starlings and the shadow of a single flying bird. Advertisement Mr. Uecker died June 10 in Düsseldorf. His death, in a hospital, was confirmed by his son Jacob. He was 95. Advertisement In addition to his son, he is survived by his wife, Christine Uecker, who runs the Uecker Archive with Jacob; his children Marcel Uecker-Hardung and Laura Uecker, from a previous marriage; and his sister Rotraut Moquay-Klein, an artist. Another sister, Edita Mathais, died in 1987. Nails were not Mr. Uecker's only medium. He covered chairs with string; built kinetic installations with motors and sand; designed sets; made films; staged exhibitions and what he called performance-art 'actions' all over the world; and painted the old-fashioned way, with canvas and paint. He also designed a meditation room for Germany's lower house of Parliament in Berlin, as well as soaring blue windows that were recently installed in Schwerin Cathedral, in the northern Germany city its named after. But for six decades nails remained his signature. Writing for Frieze in 2019, when Mr. Uecker was nearly 90, curator Glenn Adamson said, 'Whatever you are doing right now, there is a good chance that Günther Uecker is hammering.' After the death in 1962 of artist Yves Klein, his friend and brother-in-law, Mr. Uecker even found consolation in the practice. 'It was a way to process my emotions,' he said of his piece 'Hommage à Yves Klein' in a 2024 interview. 'I punched a canvas and the wooden boards behind it until my hands started bleeding. And then I stretched the canvas and splashed white paint onto it, because it seemed too literal. At the center of the work is my blood, resulting from the pain I felt over the fact that Yves Klein had fallen into the sky.' Advertisement Günther Uecker (pronounced GOON-ter OO-eck-er) was born March 13, 1930, in Wendorf, in northern Germany, the oldest child of Charlotte (Roeglin) and Walter Uecker, an engineer and mechanic. His parents later owned a farm in Wustrow, on the Baltic Sea. 'The inspiration for my work comes from nature,' Mr. Uecker told Matthew Wilcox for Apollo magazine in 2017. 'My father was a farmer, and I still believe our purpose in life is to bring the fruit from the earth.' In the same interview, he recalled the commingled smells of soil, animals, and airplane production during World War II, and being forced by Russian soldiers to bury corpses that had washed ashore from a downed prison boat. In 1953, Mr. Uecker slipped out of what had become the Communist-controlled German Democratic Republic into West Berlin. After studying art there while waiting to be processed as a refugee, he made his way to Düsseldorf and enrolled at the Kunstakademie, where his classmates included Joseph Beuys and Günter Grass. Zero Group began in Düsseldorf in the late 1950s when Piene and Mack began staging one-night studio exhibitions. They later befriended Klein, who joined them for some shows, and named their collective Zero Group, evoking the final tense, expectant moment of a rocket-ship countdown. Mr. Uecker was one of 45 artists to participate in the duo's seventh show, 'The Red Picture,' in April 1958; it was accompanied by the first of three issues of a Zero Group magazine. Advertisement He was soon inducted as the third core member of the group. A 1963 poem written jointly by Piene, Mack, and Mr. Uecker, published in connection with an exhibition at Galerie Diogenes in Berlin, expressed their shared ideas about their guiding symbol in evocative terms, if not very specific ones. 'Zero is silence. Zero is the beginning. Zero is round. Zero spins,' the poem begins, ultimately concluding, 'Zero is Zero.' Mr. Uecker showed work at Documenta 3, the contemporary art exhibition in Kassell, in 1964, both alone and, after a special appeal to the organizer, with Piene and Mack as part of Zero Group. That same year, the trio made their American institutional debut at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia and their commercial debut at the Howard Wise Gallery in Manhattan. In 1965, Mr. Uecker was included in the group exhibition 'The Responsive Eye' at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. By 1966, however, the group could no longer agree on a direction and decided to disband. Their final show, in Bonn, Germany, included Mr. Uecker's 'New York Dancer I,' in which a white cloth studded with clattering nails hung from a revolving post. In subsequent years, he represented Germany at the 1970 Venice Biennale, won a number of German art prizes and exhibited widely. He also taught for more than 20 years at the Kunstakademie. In a certain sense, his whole career was an extended expression of the special kind of possibility available to artists of his generation. 'When we looked at our parents and the neighbors,' he explained, 'we thought they were all murderers, they had been responsible for the war. Young people then were very free. We felt we could do it all.' Advertisement This article originally appeared in
Arab News
05-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Arab News
US Qatari Sophia Al-Maria wins 2025 Frieze Artist Award
DUBAI: US Qatari artist and writer Sophia Al-Maria has been announced as the recipient of the 2025 Frieze Artist Award, one of the art world's most highly anticipated annual commissions. For the latest updates, follow us on Instagram @ The award is part of Frieze London, a leading international art fair that will return to Regent's Park from Oct. 15-19, bringing together more than 280 galleries from 45 countries. Presented in partnership with Forma, the award supports early- to mid-career artists in debuting new works. This year, Al-Maria will perform 'Wall Based Work (a Trompe LOL),' a live stand-up comedy show held daily inside the fair tent. The work marks Al-Maria's first attempt at stand-up, in which she will blend sharp humor with her long-standing interest in mythology, empire and pop culture. 'In partnership with Forma, we are proud to continue supporting artist-centered programming,' said Eva Langret, director of Frieze EMEA. 'Al-Maria's debut stand-up promises a collective experience exploring vulnerability, creativity, shared anxieties and LOLs.' Meanwhile, Chris Rawcliffe, artistic director at Forma, said: 'By wielding humor as a tool for survival, Al-Maria not only provokes reflection but actively reshapes the cultural conversation … Al-Maria is more than an artist and critic, she is a catalyst for change, and an indispensable voice in both the art world and the wider social landscape.' Al-Maria's proposal was selected by a jury of leading industry professionals, including curator and museum consultant Lydia Yee and the artistic director of exhibitions at Ikon Gallery, Melanie Pocock, artistic director of exhibitions at Ikon Gallery, as well as Langret and Rawcliffe. Based in London, Al-Maria works across drawing, collage, sculpture, film and writing. Her practice is unified by a focus on storytelling and mythmaking, often reimagining histories and envisioning speculative futures. Her work has been shown at major institutions and biennales, including the Gwangju Biennale, the New Museum and Whitney Museum in New York, the Venice Biennale, and Tate Britain.
