Co-organized with Gagosian and Leon Gallery International, the show marks the first time Paik’s work has been shown in the country. U.S. Ambassador to the Philippines Sung Kim leads a performance of ...
Born in Seoul, South Korea, in 1932, visionary artist Nam June Paik was always fascinated with technology, and his boundary-breaking work paved the way for new media practices around the world.
Every major museum with modern art has at least one work by Nam June Paik. And if they’re smart — if they recognized how quirky, prescient, and trailblazing Paik was — they have multiple Paik works, ...
The artwork and ideas of Nam June Paik were a major influence on late 20th-century art and continue to inspire a new generation of artists. “Nam June Paik: Global Visionary” offers an unprecedented ...
See the world through the eyes of Nam June Paik, the father of video art. See the world through the eyes of Nam June Paik, the father of video art and coiner of the term “electronic superhighway.” ...
Director Amanda Kim’s feature-length portrait of the late Korean American visionary premiered in Sundance’s documentary competition. By Jordan Mintzer The documentary Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest ...
Nam June Paik sitting in “TV Chair” (1968/1976) in ‘Nam June Paik Werke, 1946–1976: Music, Fluxus, Video,’ 1976 (photo © Friedrich Rosenstiel, Cologne ...
After a year spent consuming so very many streaming shows, the last thing I want to see when I leave my house is the glow of a television set staring back at me. But on my first trip to a museum ...
“It wasn’t easy,” recalls Nam June Paik’s New York landlord, when the Korean-born video artist first arrived in America. “He had 16 televisions chained together. And he had two robots.” And it was ...
A new documentary follows the ceaseless innovations of a man who made art out of television sets and found inspiration in disruption. By Nicolas Rapold When you purchase a ticket for an independently ...