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Kim Suha holds her hands by her face, thinking. She is sitting at a table in her restaurant, wearing a hat with different colored squares. Behind her is a large green plant.

A Chef Who Lives As A Poet

Jisu Sheen has a very Gwangju day in a verse- and textile-decorated restaurant.

Jisu Sheen

7 Aug 2026 · 5 min read

An interior corner filled with drawings on loose pieces of paper. A lamp illuminates a framed two-page spread featuring a monster with many eyeballs and a printed text passage.

Putting Myself In The Monsters' Shoes

An exhibit of shadows in motion promises a "perfect sleep," delivers enchanting nightmares.

Jisu Sheen

6 Aug 2026 · 3 min read

Nature Trumps Geometry

Nature Trumps Geometry

As artist Oh Sera destroys her materials — on purpose.

Jisu Sheen

3 Aug 2026 · 4 min read

Romain, with a yellow collared shirt and glasses, reads a piece of paper in their hands. Jiann reaches forward, past a puffed rice snack, to select a paper.

Living in an "Age of Archive"

Artists from around the world discuss record-keeping from inside a room of records (a bookstore).

Jisu Sheen

3 Aug 2026 · 4 min read

How A God Is Born

How A God Is Born

Journalist Jonathan Cheng’s debut book studies Kim Il Sung’s Christian childhood and the unlikely beginnings of the North Korean dictator cult.

Jisu Sheen

29 Jul 2026 · 4 min read

A hand holding a photograph of a simple triangular house in a bright green field. The house has small windows and a light blue door.

Facing the 'Rumored Self'

Interactive photo exhibit invites the audience to confess what others say about them and choose how they want to live.

Jisu Sheen

20 Jul 2026 · 3 min read

A close-up photo of a hand-bound notebook with a wooden cover in the shape of a door, with cutouts revealing white paper underneath.

Book Judged By Handmade Cover

Jisu Sheen reports on a 200+ vendor 3-D craft fair and one artisan's fascination with doorways.

Jisu Sheen

20 Jul 2026 · 6 min read

Two translucent hand sculptures suspended by white ropes touch the sandy ground, leaving grooves in their paths. Their fingers are pointed toward each other.

Hand Meets Sand

Jisu Sheen takes a close look at where hands are headed — and at stories drilled into the walls — in a lobby art installation.

Jisu Sheen

17 Jul 2026 · 4 min read

Somewhat blurry/aged image of a person in a flannel reaching up, pinning a loose painting to a rod resting on wooden supports. Many scenes centering people protesting.

Surviving The Fire

Jisu Sheen reports on a digitally restored 77-meter painted banner chronicling 100 years of pro-democracy Korean movements, burned by police in 1989.

Jisu Sheen

13 Jul 2026 · 4 min read

A close-up of a painting in thin layers on a beige-colored substrate with visible fiber textures. On rectangular shelves are organic shapes in pink, purple, and turquoise gradients and hairy

Mystery Light Blurs the Edge

Jisu Sheen discovers new ways of looking past borders in a “house of stone.”

Jisu Sheen

8 Jul 2026 · 3 min read

A girl crouches down and holds her hair back. She is walking through a bookshelf hallway decorated with white strings creating a tripwire-like challenges. Bells hang from the strings.

How to Become a Grape

Jisu Sheen tracks how elementary schoolers navigate the challenge in New Haven & in Gwangju.

Jisu Sheen

6 Jul 2026 · 4 min read

Photograph of a rocky beach with sunlight on the water.

An Old Friend Has A New Name

Jisu Sheen trips a linguistic light fantastic.

Jisu Sheen

3 Jul 2026 · 3 min read

Seo Eun Ji, dressed in white, looks down at a desk with some lamps and plants.

Life Of A Mail-Turtle

A local artist installs a slow post office in a Gwangju bookstore.

Jisu Sheen

29 Jun 2026 · 5 min read

When Your Arm Is Fried Chicken

When Your Arm Is Fried Chicken

Bae Sung Ho delivers a tasty performance at an international indy film fest.

Jisu Sheen

29 Jun 2026 · 3 min read

A collection of photographs is arranged close together on a wall. They are all photos of trees. They are zoomed into the branches, so the photos have a blended-together effect.

The Hidden Lives Of Non-Human Beings

Jisu discovers them in an art show inside and outside a zero-waste facility.

Jisu Sheen

12 Jun 2026 · 3 min read

Lee Hee-Doo plays a guitar in a wide stance with a stoic expression. Behind him, bassist Han Seon-Jae flips his hair over his face while playing. Neon and stage lights illuminate them.

Between Rock and a Hard Place

Genres and generations collide at a rock vs. heavy metal Battle of the Bands.

Jisu Sheen

3 Jun 2026 · 3 min read

A small square painting of a figure in a bath, with some soap suds on her head.

Who Is A Mother?

Artist-mothers ask, and answer, “Who am I?” in indie bookstore exhibit.

Jisu Sheen

2 Jun 2026 · 4 min read

A girl with short hair holds a guitar with a beach design on it. She is speaking into the mic. Behind her are green stage lights.

Welcome Back, Jimi Hendrix

A 17-year-old guitar legend in the making takes us over the rainbow.

Jisu Sheen

1 Jun 2026 · 3 min read