Gwangju in the southwest, which has hosted an art biennale since 1995, has just launched the Gwangju Media Art Platform as an additional venue for its municipal art museum. In Daegu, a city 30 minutes by train from Ulsan, the Kansong Art Museum is set to open in 2023 to host the Kansong Collection, a private collection of artworks and treasures bought by a wealthy Korean businessman during the Japanese colonial period of 1910-45. The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, which now operates four venues in Seoul and Cheongju, announced that it would open a fifth in Daejeon - a hub city known for its transportation and R&D facilities - by 2026.
“Regional governments are rushing to establish cultural foundations and corporations are planning to open art museums.”Įarlier this year, Seoul’s Museum of Art announced that it would inaugurate three more branches throughout the city by 2024.
“The significance of art in Korean society is undeniably increasing, whether in the commercial or public sphere,” says Suh. (The inaugural Frieze Seoul will take place in September.) In the wake of K-pop and the Korean Wave in general, the country is trying to see if K-art can be the next big global draw. Abundant liquidity has made the domestic art market boom for most of the past decade and major international galleries and art fairs have staked their claims in the country. Ulsan is more important than one isolated opening: it represents the start of a period of massive growth in art museums across South Korea. The director, Suh Jin-suk, will have funds to acquire a coherent collection most public museums in South Korea are restricted by complex rules in how they buy, which leads to “few art museums in Korea with collections that have strong characters”, he says when we speak. It is the first municipal museum in Korea to build a collection with a specific focus on media art, expanding beyond traditional formats and genres. Despite its 1.2mn residents and high wages, though, Ulsan never developed much of a cultural scene - in fact, didn’t even have a municipal art museum.Īll that is changing with the arrival of the Ulsan Museum of Art, inaugurated in January 2022. To many South Koreans, Ulsan is known as the city of the Hyundai Group: during the 1970s, the industrial conglomerate turned a quiet fishing port in the southeast of the country into a gigantic company town. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || ). . . ‘Shaman’ (1980) by Park Saengkwang are both part of Lee Kun-hee’s collection left to the country © Courtesy the artists/MMCA (2) List of available versions of IT'S BEEN A LONG TIME on this website: Name Location (optional) Email (optional)Įnter correct number to prove that you are not a robot spammer The song was played with Steven Van Zandt. IT'S BEEN A LONG TIME was performed off-tour on at PNC Bank Arts Center in Holmdel, NJ, during a guest appearance at the Laid Back Festival. IT'S BEEN A LONG TIME was performed off-tour on at Count Basie Theatre in Red Bank, NJ, during a guest appearance at a Little Steven concert. IT'S BEEN A LONG TIME was performed off-tour on at Paramount Theatre in Asbury Park, NJ, during a guest appearance at a Little Steven concert. The song was played with Southside Johnny. IT'S BEEN A LONG TIME was performed off-tour on at Hammerstein Ballroom in New York City, NY, during a guest appearance at Right To Rock 2012, an event celebrating the tenth anniversary of the non-profit charity Little Kids Rock. The song was played with Southside Johnny and Steven Van Zandt. IT'S BEEN A LONG TIME was performed off-tour on at Count Basie Theatre in Red Bank, NJ, during the "Come Together: Jon Bon Jovi & Friends" benefit concert. IT'S BEEN A LONG TIME was performed off-tour on at The Stone Pony Tent in Asbury Park, NJ, with Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes, during The Stone Pony's twentieth anniversary celebration. IT'S BEEN A LONG TIME was performed off-tour on at The Stone Pony in Asbury Park, NJ, with Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes. Up all night talking 'bout dreams of better daysĪin't it funny how some things don't change Now we never quite fit baby, we never played the game ? money got made baby and money got spent Raise your glass for the comrades we've lost It's been a long time since we laughed together Girls out on the corner get lonely now and then Playing cards 'till the sun came up, rolling diceĭown to the club and listening to the blues all night Just one coat between us and we never felt cold We lived in a time and a world of our own Whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa, whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa