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Korea Herald
19-05-2025
- General
- Korea Herald
Peabody Essex Museum reopens Korea gallery
The Peabody Essex Museum in Massachusetts, US, has reopened the Yu Kil-Chun Gallery of Korean Art and Culture. The gallery, receiving visitors since Saturday, is named after Yu Kil-chun, a reformist leader and diplomat who met Edward Sylvester Morse, the PEM executive director, while on Korea's delegation to the US in 1883. Their ties led to the US museum keeping a rich Korean collection, according to the National Museum of Korea, which had supported the reopening. The gallery displays over 100 items, spanning everyday items and contemporary artworks from the 19th to 21st century. Objects of significance include traditional chairs Korea showcased at the Chicago World's Fair in 1893 and a Western top hat made of Korean horse tail that was gifted to the museum by Percival Lawrence Lowell. Lowell was a US entrepreneur who authored "The Land of the Morning Calm: A Sketch of Korea" after extensively traveling throughout Korea in the 19th century. Also featured are Korean artifacts donated to the museum by the family of Edwin V. Morgan, the US deputy consul general of Korea in 1905. Among the artifacts is a family photograph of Lee Beom-jin, the minister at the Old Korean Legation whom Morgan had befriended. Works by contemporary Korean artists including Paik Nam-june, a pioneer of video art, are on display, according to the Peabody Essex Museum, which added that Korean communities in Massachusetts had contributed toward the latest expansion.
Time Out
12-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Time Out
K-Pop Dance Party at PEM
There's a vibrant K-pop dance party on deck on May 15 from 9pm-midnight, as Peabody Essex Museum celebrates the openings of its Korean Art gallery and Jung Yeondoo: Building Dreams. With strobe lights and electronica as your guide, dance the night away to tunes by DJ Gamma Vibes. Dancers from Boston's own StyleMe Dance Studio get you on your feet during their special pop-up performances in the crowd, while the featured galleries will be open all night for partygoers to explore. Enjoy Korean snacks for purchase and sip on a creative cocktail from the cash bar. This is an 18-plus event.
Boston Globe
08-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Boston Globe
Between bylines and banter, a romance unfolds
'Kerri went for a laugh right out of the gate, and it absolutely crushed,' says her new husband, Sam Mintz, 32, of their March 15 ceremony at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem. The rest of their vows took a more serious turn. 'I brought it full circle,' says Kerriann, 31, who goes by Kerri. They promised to 'do the work,' to seek personal fulfillment and provide mutual support, to commit to authenticity and honesty in their marriage. Though they wrote their vows separately, their intentions closely aligned when read aloud for their 135 guests. Tears were shed. Advertisement Kerri and Sam married at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, liking that the museum "does great work and has so much history in it,' Kerri says. Solare Wedding Photography Before they exchanged vows, their officiant had referenced Kerri's dislike of the term 'my other half.' 'Why are you splitting yourself in half?' Kerri explains. 'You should be a whole person, and so should your partner.' After all, the 'whole person' is whom each had fallen in love with nearly a decade prior. In May 2015, both were starting roles at Kerri, then an undergrad at Boston University, was a second-summer intern. She'd become known for writing experiential features — including ranking every ride at the Barnstable County Fair. Advertisement Neither was searching for romance. Sam was focused on his first reporting job, Kerri was prepping for her senior year at BU. But soon, colleagues noticed some flirtatious banter exchanged from their face-to-face cubicles. Following a sizing mishap, Sam originally proposed with a diamond ring that had belonged to Kerri's grandmother. The ring that eventually made its way onto her finger had been designed by the couple and inspired by Princess Diana's diamond-framed sapphire engagement ring. Solare Wedding Photography The younger newsroom staff was friendly, frequenting happy hours after work. Kerri, a Sagamore native, volunteered her deep Cape knowledge as Sam got his bearings from his new Hyannis apartment. They drove to Provincetown one Saturday in July. Kerri tallied signs of 'friendship' versus 'something more,' throughout the afternoon — it rapidly tipped toward the former when Sam suggested splitting the lunch bill and asked if she'd pay for parking, since he had covered gas. Despite a parting hug, 'I was like, 'I guess I just misinterpreted this whole month. Clearly he just wants to be friends.'' On Monday — when Sam was off — Kerri found a letter on her desk. ('I thought I [was] getting fired for going on Facebook too much.') It was a handwritten note from Sam, confessing his interest in her and asking for a date — and 'if you don't feel the same way, just pretend like I never wrote this letter.' 'I get a lot of credit from people for that romantic gesture,' says Sam, who had the idea after Kerri had told him she loved handwritten mail. 'But I'd say 70 percent of it was being really nervous to ask Kerri out in person.' Their first date was days later at Advertisement While the proposal was not a total surprise — the two had plans to marry — Kerri surprised her betrothed with a watch that features the phases of the moon. On the back is an inscription, "To the moon and back" — a sentimental phrase for the couple. Solare Wedding Photography Future dates mixed work and play — they attended concerts at the Cape Cod Melody Tent, taking turns writing reviews for the paper for the following morning. It was after a Rick Springfield concert that Sam told Kerri he loved her for the first time. Related : While their evenings were filled with reporting and rapport, summer's end loomed. 'It definitely could have had really classic 'summer fling vibes' since there was such a specific location and time [for it to end],' says Sam. But neither wanted that. And after seeing David Sedaris — Kerri's favorite writer — at the Melody Tent, they agreed to try 'quasi-long distance' once the school year began. The following years brought similar crossroads — Sam began a reporting fellowship with environmental policy outlet E&E news in Washington, D.C., in November 2016, while Carrie explored a research opportunity with the Suffolk County House of Correction. They relied on 48-hour visits, once a month, via inexpensive Spirit Air flights. She moved to D.C. in April 2018, eventually deciding on Boston College for grad school and a career in social work. And in late spring of 2021, Sam joined her, moving into their first shared apartment in Coolidge Corner, where the couple currently resides. 'That's a theme in the last decade of our relationship,' says Kerri. 'Sam and I always making the choice to be together. ... we've had a lot of points where we've looked at our relationship and said, 'You're worth the work.'' The couple describes their wedding as a Jewish ceremony with Catholic traditions, representing Sam and Kerri's upbringings respectively. They walked down the aisle to 'Can't Help Falling in Love" by Elvis and exited to the Beatles' "All You Need Is Love." Solare Wedding Photography The milestone ushered in a foster-turned-family tabby named Smokey and talk of marriage. They felt settled in their careers — Kerri is an ICU Social Worker at Boston Children's Hospital, Sam is a founding editor of local news startup, Advertisement 'Our careers and living situation were in a good spot, and we could really have a wedding that we wanted to have, like [the one] that we had always envisioned,' says Kerri. Sam proposed at Ladies View, a scenic spot on the Ring of Kerry in Killarney, Ireland, where they were vacationing in fall of 2023. 'A ring for Kerri in the Ring of Kerry,' her subsequent Instagram post had said. The couple arranged for a Yyichud, a Jewish wedding tradition that allows the newlyweds a brief time in private after the ceremony. The couple remembers their 20-minutes fondly; they spent them eating appetizers and relishing the newness of being married. Solare Wedding Photography They chose the Guests flowed between three spaces for the ceremony, cocktail hour, and reception. The couple arranged for the Their wedding coordinator Leslie Cregg-Hyder of Sam -gria before diving into stations for tacos and short ribs. The couple arranged for a Yyichud, a Jewish wedding tradition that allows the newlyweds a brief time alone after the ceremony. The couple spent their 20 minutes eating appetizers and relishing the newness of being married. Solare Wedding Photography Their favorite moments were too many to count — when Sam's grandfather's tallit that was draped over their shoulders during the ceremony, or when Sam's mom and dad performed Don Williams and Emmylou Harris's 'If I Needed You' during the speeches. Or when both sets of parents read the same prayer, Kerri's in English, Sam's in Hebrew, during what she deemed their 'Jew-ish' ceremony. Advertisement Both remember spying on their guests from the second floor balcony above the dance floor, before the reception began, waiting for their entrance song to play. '[It was] peeking out and seeing all of our favorite people in this room,' says Sam, 'and the anticipation that we're about to go start the biggest party of our lives.' Read more from , The Boston Globe's new weddings column. Rachel Kim Raczka is a writer and editor in Boston. She can be reached at
Yahoo
26-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Peabody Essex Museum to Stage Andrew Gn Exhibition
This fall the Peabody Essex Museum will unveil 'Andrew Gn: Fashioning the World,' which will be making its North American debut. The exhibition will sharpen the focus on the Singapore-born fashion designer and visual artist's fashion, art and design philosophy. The show reenvisions what was the designer's first retrospective, which debuted in Singapore at the Asian Civilisations Museum in the fall of 2023. The U.S. version is being organized by PEM in collaboration with the ACM in Singapore. The Paris-based designer will host an opening night party at PEM on Sept. 11 in Salem, Mass. More from WWD Penhaligon's Debuts Exhibition Centering Britishness With Local Artisanal Touch in Shanghai Meet Oude Waag, Where Avant-garde Meets Eastern Sensibility Viktor & Rolf Are Ready for First U.S. Exhibition at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta Nearly 100 of Gn's works including clothing, accessories, original illustrations and digital media will be on display. In December 2023, the designer stepped back from his namesake company to focus more on art. One point of differentiation from the Singapore show is Gn's pledge to donate approximately 90 works from his Paris-based archive to PEM, which will 'allow the museum to exhibit a unique presentation that will draw substantially from its own holdings,' according to Petra Slinkard, director of curatorial affairs and the Nancy B. Putnam curator of fashion and textiles at PEM. She said Gn's house belied its size as an independent label. 'With an ethos centered on empowering women, the House of Andrew Gn [which is now closed] created refined, maximalist looks combining Southeast Asian and Asian motifs with inspiration drawn from art and fashion history and nature. Executed with bold and unexpected color combinations, each of Gn's robust fashion collections is visually sophisticated and meticulously designed,' Slinkard said. While ACM's presentation focused on celebrating 'an extraordinary Singaporean life and his major contributions to the nation,' PEM will celebrate Gn's 'unique and impactful career,' she said. The show will also 'lay more groundwork' about who Gn is, 'as he is less well-known to American audiences, and about Singapore as a city-state,' Slinkard said. The latter will 'draw connections for visitors between Singapore and Salem's shared histories as port cities that celebrating diversity and global reach.' PEM's 10,000-square-foot show is meant to introduce new audiences to Gn and offer an inclusive and contemporary representation of Asia, South East Asia and fashion 'that is sure to inspire the next generation of designers,' Slinkard said. Gn's designs have been worn by such notables as Lady Gaga, Lily Collins during the third season of the Netflix series 'Emily in Paris' and by Queen Rania of Jordan. His global perspective is engrained in his upbringing, have lived in Singapore, Paris, London, Milan and New York. The designer started his company in Paris in 1995 with an emphasis on opulence, intricate embellishment and ultra-luxe craftsmanship. Visitors at PEM will take in Gn's work and art in thematic sections that highlight his blend of Western aesthetics, art history and Asian decorative art and design that relay cross-cultural forms of Asian and Western art. His fashion blends artistic traditions, bold patterns, technical innovation and cultural influences. 'As one of the oldest continually operating and collecting museums in the United States, Gn's design practice and creative spirit closely align with our museum's celebration of art, culture, history and intellectual curiosity,' Slinkard said. 'For centuries, Asian artists have catered to varied markets around the globe, adapting and combining design motifs, and materials and techniques, to create new artistic expressions. From translucent porcelains and lustrous lacquers to sumptuous fabrics, these transcultural objects defy easy categorization.' A self-described 'citizen of the world,' Gn is more than interested in art and history. He is also an avid collector of European and Asian furniture, porcelain and textiles, including many items that 'mirror PEM's collections,' according to Slinkard. The U.S. museum holds the largest and most comprehensive collection of Asian export art in the world and its diversity is in line with Gn's personal collection, she added. The exhibition is being made possible by The Colby Foundation Ltd., Carolyn and Peter S. Lynch and The Lynch Foundation. Slinkard added that PEM is also excited to help its exhibition partner, the ACM, celebrate Singapore's 60th anniversary of independence. Best of WWD Abby Champion's Style Through the Years: From Runway Model to Red Carpet Fixture With Patrick Schwarzenegger [PHOTOS] Prosthetics in Fashion: 25 Years of Transforming Beauty Standards on the Runway [PHOTOS] Supermodel Iman's Iconic Fashion Journey: Celebrating 50 Years [PHOTOS]
Korea Herald
10-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Korea Herald
Newly restored Joseon folding screen on display at Leeum
Restored by experts at Leeum Museum of Art, 19th-century folding screen to return to Peabody Essex Museum following Leeum show A folding screen depicting a banquet hosted by a provincial governor in 1826 during the Joseon era (1392-1910) will be on display for a month at the Leeum Museum of Art, which restored the painting that belongs to the Peabody Essex Museum in Massachusetts. The 16-month restoration effort began in November 2023 when Leeum became the first private museum in Korea to take part in the state-run Overseas Korean Cultural Heritage Foundation's annual project to restore Korean cultural objects held overseas. 'Welcoming Banquet of the Governor of Pyeongan,' an eight-panel screen, illustrates a banquet hosted in 1826 by the governor of Pyeongan Province — roughly coinciding with North and South Pyongyan provinces in northwestern North Korea today — to honor the two top candidates who had aced the grueling state examinations to become public officials. The screen was briefly on show at the National Museum of Korea in 1994, but 'the painting back then had not been as fully restored as it is now,' an OKCHF official said Monday during a preopening tour of the show, which opens Tuesday and runs through April 6. 'We now have identified the correct title for the work, and all eight panels are in the right sequence,' the official said of the 16-month restoration that included sifting through vast volumes of historical data to make informed retouches to the centuries-old folding screen. The Peabody Essex Museum acquired the painting in 1927, a purchase that left no paper trail that could shed light on how it was made or who it was bought from, according to the US museum. 'It took decades for us to finally get this restoration help,' said Kim Ji-yeon, curator of Korean art at Peabody. She noted that locating a highly skilled pool of experts on Korean folding screens had been next to impossible until the museum came to learn of the joint OKCHF-Leeum restoration plans. Nam Yumi, senior conservator at Leeum, said her team dedicated much of the restoration effort to 'filling up ten thousand holes' left by insects attracted to the rice flour on the screen. 'Rice flour had been applied all over the surface of the paper made with bamboo. Rice flour renders paint colors more vivid,' Nam said, adding that her team made sure paint pigments would not easily decay over time. The frames that hold the eight panels together were re-created, Nam added, referring to extensive research required to reflect their historicity. The panels had been separately framed with glass picture frames, and the researchers at Leeum had to determine the order of the panels, consulting another folding screen depicting the same area, among other materials. Accompanying the folding screen on exhibition at Leeum is a 'hwarot' — a traditional wedding robe worn by women during the Joseon era. Peabody, one of 20 museums abroad holding a ceremonial garment of this kind, had also asked for the hwarot to be restored. The Peabody Essex Museum, touting one of the world's largest Korean collections totaling some 1,800 pieces, said a Japanese antiques dealer donated the hwarot in 1927. How it was taken out of Korea remains unknown. 'It took 13 months to fully repair the hwarot,' another OKCHF official said of the garment embroidered with symbolic motifs — lotus flowers, peonies, phoenixes and butterflies — to express hopes for a prosperous marriage and a life of happiness. The hwarot is believed to have originally been only for royalty until it was allowed to be worn by nonroyals in the late 19th century. 'Hanji,' or mulberry paper, was found to be used to connect the outer and inner fabrics of the hwarot's sleeves, according to experts from a Dankook University team that led the hwarot restoration. The garment restoration cost OKCHF, the state-run foundation, some 300 million won ($206,000). The folding screen restoration was entirely funded by the Samsung Foundation of Culture, which operates Leeum. Leeum's restoration expertise came into the spotlight in 2015, when it helped a German museum restore a Korean celadon piece. In February 2023, restoration work began on two hanging scrolls by Korean independence fighter Ahn Jung-geun. In December of the same year, Leeum was charged with restoring the Joseon folding screen. After the March-April special exhibition at Leeum, the Peabody Essex Museum will showcase the two restored Korean objects in May. 'So far we have supported 58 projects in total to ensure Korean cultural heritage overseas is not only preserved, but displayed to give a global audience the chance to appreciate them,' said Kim Jung-hee, chair of the OKCHF.
