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SEOUL, Jan. 10 (Yonhap) -- LG Electronics Inc. said Sunday it will open four virtual exhibition halls at the upcoming world's largest tech expo to introduce its latest innovations amid the pandemic. The South Korean tech giant will run four online exhibition areas -- Life is ON TV, Virtual Experience, LG SIGNATURE in Vegas and Life's Good Studio -- under the

SEOUL, South Korea, Jan. 10, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The Ministry of SMEs and Startups announced, "Due to concerns about the spread of COVID-19, CES 2021 will be held all digital, and MSS has built a K-Startup pavilion to raise the status of Korean startups." Also, MSS emphasized that it will actively promote the online K-Startup hall in Korea and abroad

For the global technology industry, early-January means one thing – CES. The world's largest technology show usually floods Las Vegas with thousands of new products and 170,000 attendees, but for 2021 it will be an online-only affair. But the lack of a physical convention center won't stop the world's technology industry from showing off its latest and

CES 2021 is going ahead in January, but not as we know it. Rather than spanning a handful of hotels, exhibition centres, and casinos in Las Vegas, the crowded tech show will instead be beamed across ethernet cables and over Wi-Fi networks. Thousands of attendees, companies, and exhibitors will be taking their show online for the virtual event. From January

The 2020 edition of Mobile World Congress, shortly referred to as MWC, was canceled due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The organizers, GSMA even refunded the amount for attendees and companies. Moving forward, it recently rescheduled the MWC Barcelona event to June 2021 for better interests. Now, the organization announces that MWC Shanghai 2021 will

Alicja Kwade, All At Any Time (AR). Augmented reality. Courtesy of the artist and Acute Art In recent months, viewing art outdoors has become a welcome, and necessary solution to the enforced suspension of in-gallery events. But a new Acute Art project has taken this one step further, forgoing the need for physical art altogether. Arranged as a walking tour,

‘It was important that this imagery represented a time where creativity still found a way to flourish’ As the world went into lockdown in March 2020, so creatives, many without commissioned work, adapted to finding inspiration within their four walls, or amongst the streets or fields nearest their home. ‘With photographic shoots in our industry coming to a

Spanish practice Smart & Green Design has re-designed the Barbican's touring Game On exhibition for a former underground cistern in Madrid, using more than 150 LED arches to evoke the neon colours of the 1980s. The retrospective, which is reportedly the largest international exhibition to explore the history of video games , spans more than 400

Photo by Ted7, courtesy of the Petersen Automotive Museum. Although the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles remains closed to the public, the staff have not been idle while waiting for the county to resume operations. Ready to wow guests upon their return: a retrospective on horsepower and innovation titled “ S upercars: A Century of Spectacle and

Anicka Yi, Polymorphic Data Structure (2020), on offer from Gladstone Gallery. This has been the year without Art Basels, without Friezes, without TEFAFs, and in most parts of the world, all other art fairs of the kind—physical ones, with collectors strolling the aisles and dealers making their pitches—are still a long way off. But in the Asia-Pacific realm,

When COVID-19 forced the world into lockdown, almost everything moved (more) online. Team meetings, yoga classes, concerts. No longer able to welcome guests onto their physical sites, industries across the board had to rely on web site visits instead. Enter the explosion of virtual/online exhibitions. Here’s how four projects made the quick shift to the

Received wisdom, and newspaper columnists, would have you believe that we’re currently experiencing a revolution in the way we consume art and artefacts online. The British Museum, frequently the institution at the top of the global visitor-number leaderboard, has seen a corresponding surge in its digital audience since it closed its doors. Meanwhile Art

John Baldessari, Palm tree/Seascape, 2010. The opening of Moderna Museet´s John Baldessari retrospective this Saturday, 21 March, coincides with the closing of the museum at least until 14 April. The outbreak of coronavirus, which has had a significant impact on large parts of the world, is also affecting the Swedish art world. Many galleries have already

As of today, a total of 80,270 cases of coronavirus (Covid-19) have been diagnosed in mainland China and 2,981 deaths have been reported. Struggling to control the epidemic, the Chinese government ordered museums and art galleries across the country to close on 23 January and they have been shut ever since. Although staff at some institutions have gradually

Paris – During the just-past AW20 fashion show circuit, top producer Alexandre de Betak made a seismic announcement: effective immediately, every runway, exhibition and event overseen by his agency Bureau Betak would be executed in accordance with the highest level of sustainability practices. The initiative, aimed at slashing CO2 emissions by 25 percent by

What better way to launch a global art event than to have a K-Pop band (BTS), Hans Ulrich Obrist and a host of first-rate artists including Sir Antony Gormley officiate. This is what happened today at the Serpentine, in a futuristic wing of the gallery, designed by the late Zaha Hadid. BTS are pioneering global phenomenon from Korea. They look like 80s synth

Visual art Picasso and Paper Paper wasn’t just something to draw on for Picasso – it was yet another material he could manipulate. That effortless creativity started with sticking newspapers on to early cubist canvases to invent collage and evolved into his own style of playful origami sculpture – yet he also found time to create some of the greatest

Dezeen promotion: this year's thematic exhibition at the 2019 Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism looked at how a "collective" practice can challenge the way cities are developed. Titled Collective City, the thematic exhibition was curated by Beth Hughes, current head of programme for architecture at London's Royal College of Art . It ran as part of

Justin Lane/EPA, via Shutterstock Our guide to new art shows and some that will be closing soon. ‘ARTISTIC LICENSE: SIX TAKES ON THE GUGGENHEIM COLLECTION’ at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (through Jan. 12). Displays that artists select from a museum’s collection are almost inevitably interesting, revealing and valuable. After all, artists can be

With Winter setting in and the days becoming shorter, it is the perfect season for visiting galleries and immersing yourself in the rich and diverse culture London has to offer. Many artists and galleries are using their platforms to address wider global topics and, with the current climate crisis which faces humanity, we can increase our awareness and

From immersive installations to informative expos, we’ve visited museums , galleries and project spaces worldwide to bring you an edit of what to see and where in the world of architecture. Here’s what happens when architects, curators and academics get together to create and educate... Love in a Mist: The Politics of Fertility Harvard GSD, Cambridge,

In August, the first ever loss of a glacier due to climate change was marked by a symbolic funeral in Iceland. Unfortunately, this is no isolated event; glaciers, polar land, and sea ice are melting much faster than scientists originally predicted as global temperatures rise. During a five-day heat wave this summer, Greenland lost 55 billion tons of ice