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Korea’s ‘painter of light’ finally gets national spotlight

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CHEONGJU, North Chungcheong Province — Painter Bang Hai Ja, long celebrated in France as a visionary “painter of light,” is finally receiving a large-scale institutional exhibition in Korea that aims to move her work from the realm of mystical cult favorite into the country’s modern art history. The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA) will open “Bang Hai Ja: Sowing Light Across Heaven and Earth” at its Cheongju venue on Friday, marking the 140th anniversary of diplomatic ties b

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