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Nam June Paik

June 2023

  • Clockwise from top left: Polite Society, Pearl, Marcel the Shell With Shoes On, Tár, Till and The Fabelmans.

    Best culture of 2023 so far
    The best films of 2023 so far

    Cate Blanchett’s unravelling conductor, Spielberg’s semi-memoir and the stop-motion tale of a shell wearing shoes all feature in the pick of the year released in the UK to date

May 2023

  • Nam June Paik in Moon Is the Oldest TV.

    Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV review – engaging film about the video art pioneer

  • A still from Nam June Paik: Moon is the Oldest TV.

    Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV review – the adventures of a multimedia maverick

April 2023

  • Keeley Traae’s 3D printed vases will be on show at London Craft Week

    Observer Design
    Design news: the father of video art, London Craft Week and Frank Lloyd Wright trainers

    Read a tome on time, watch a documentary about artist Nam June Paik and marvel at the work of graphic designer Neville Brody

September 2022

  • Mirage Stage, 1986, by Nam June Paik showing at Hallyu! The Korean Wave at the V&A.

    Hallyu! The Korean Wave review – a dazzling historical remix

    This gleeful, giddy celebration of the culture of South Korea ranges from fashion to fine art and grand guignol to Gangnam style

January 2020

  • Smash it up … Pipilotti Rist’s Ever Is Over All at the Glenstone Museum, Potomac, Maryland.

    Smashed cars and Chinese chewing: the five masterpieces of video art

    Half a century ago, an art form flickered into life as mavericks from Nam June Paik to Bill Viola took up technology to transform the way we see the world

December 2019

  • Turner prize here we come … an image still from the film Otolith II, 2007.

    Artists assemble! How collectives took over the art world

    They’re principled, they’re powerful and they make the art world jumpy. As the Turner prize is split four ways, we look at how collectives are shaking things up

October 2019

  • Nam June Paik exhibtion at the Tate Modern, London, UK - 15 Oct 2019<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Guy Bell/REX/Shutterstock (10444685x) TV Buddha 1974 - Nam June Paik Nam June Paik exhibtion at the Tate Modern, London, UK - 15 Oct 2019 This exhibition presents a comprehensive overview of the visionary artist’s five-decade career, bringing together a diverse array of works from rarely seen early compositions and robot sculptures to large-scale television installations and full-room installations, in a ‘riot’ of light and sound. He is enowned for his innovative use of emerging technologies.

    Nam June Paik review – encounters with a true visionary

  • Out of the box … Self-Portrait, 2005, by Paik.

    Nam June Paik review: move over Tim Berners-Lee, here's the real web prophet

January 2016

  • Nam June Paik, Internet Dream, 1994

    Together in electric dreams: how the art world embraced modern technology first

    A wall of TV monitors, a face pixelated in Mondrian colours, a playful selfie … we may all be artists in the social media age, but, as a new exhibition reveals, visual artists were the original tech heads

December 2010

October 2008

  • 1000 artworks: Poussin's Arcadian Shepherds

    1000 artworks to see before you die
    Artists beginning with P

    From Nam June Paik to Nicolas Poussin

July 2008

  • Tom Service on classical music
    Zen for Film is perfect medicine for hectic lives

    Stop what you're doing: composer and video artist Nam June Paik's soundless film deserves our absolute concentration

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