Scaler Lecture Series | BG Muhn with a pre-lecture cocktail hosted by PLUKKA

Pre-lecture cocktail hosted by PLUKKA
Thursday, August 4, 2016 | 6:00pm

Join us at 6:00pm as we toast PLUKKA and preview their inimitable selection of design-driven jewels. The Watermill Center thanks PLUKKA for their ongoing support and dedication of The Annual Summer Benefit & Auction.

Scaler Lecture Series | BG Muhn
Contemporary North Korean Art: Complexity within Simplicity
Thursday, August 4, 2016 |7:30pm

Art is huge in North Korea. The Mansudae Art Studio in Pyongyang is the largest government-supported art community in the world. Artists and artworks are highly regarded throughout the country. For the outside world, it remains an unexplored territory although there has been some limited, but growing, interest. Is there “art for art’s sake” in North Korea? Is all of the art produced there entirely propaganda and nothing else? How accurate is general perception of North Korean art in the West? Professor Muhn will share his insights gained through years of research on the subject. He will discuss the scope and variety of artistic expression of North Korean art and its meaning in the contemporary art world. His on-site, firsthand research including interviews of numerous artists, art historians as well as faculty members and students of the prestigious Pyongyang Art College will culminate in his forthcoming book on the subject.

BG Muhn, a painter and art professor at Georgetown University, has taken a keen interest in and studied the relatively unknown field of North Korean art. He has made numerous research trips to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) or North Korea, and visited museums, exhibitions and artists’ studios. He has been giving talks on North Korean art at academic venues including Harvard, American, Georgetown, Johns Hopkins and Columbia universities.

Additional Information

Price: Admission is free, but reservation is required. Click here to make a free reservation for BG Muhn’s lecture

Location: The Watermill Center, 39 Water Mill Towd Road, Water Mill, NY 11976

Contact Information: 631.726.4628 | events@watermillcenter.org

The lecture series is curated by Robert Wilson and administered & co-curated Kate Eberstadt, Founder of The Hutto Project and a former International Summer Program participant. Our summer lecture series is made possible by the generous support of the Scaler Foundation.