Lee Ufan

The country’s contemporary and historical artists from Seoul, Busan, Gwangju and Daegu are strongly represented at this year’s fair

An exhibition at the Smart Art Museum, Chicago, questions the role of the market and the possibility of pure aesthetics in single-coloured works

The Seoul-based designer discusses his extensive collective – including works by Lee Ufan and Ahn Kyuchul – and the last work he brought 

Five Naoshima museums to visit during the Setouchi Triennale

Presenting a new body of work at Pace Gallery, New York, until 13 October, the legendary Korean artist speaks about working in a state of ‘empty consciousness’, and how art provides a moment to think differently about the world

Whitney 2017 artist list announced; Helen Marten wins the inaugural Hepworth Prize for sculpture

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Gregor Muir joins Tate; Richard Prince leaves Gagosian

After the opening last year of the Lee Ufan Museum – a collaboration with the architect Tadao Ando on Naoshima Island, Japan – and ahead of his largest retrospective to date, at New York’s Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Lee Ufan talks to Melissa Chiu about his five decades as an artist, writer and philosopher