Archinect - News2024-12-22T08:47:59-05:00https://archinect.com/news/article/107634526/norwegian-artists-plan-to-open-art-academy-in-north-korea
Norwegian artists plan to open art academy in North Korea Alexander Walter2014-08-28T13:20:00-04:00>2018-01-30T06:16:04-05:00
<img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/0d/0d50368d32ac7d0b10491dbf11eb21a8?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>The North Korean government has approved plans by two Norwegian artists to open an art academy in the country. Henrik Placht and Morten Traavik travelled to North Korea together for the first time in August to flesh out the proposal and to look for potential sponsors. So far they have received financial support from the Prince Claus Fund. [...]
“One of the reasons for us going to North Korea is that we don’t believe in sanctions and the boycott of art,” Placht tells The Art Newspaper.</p></em><br /><br /><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd">
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