Shell and Resin: Korean Mother-of-Pearl and Lacquer

Online Lecture by Eleanor Soo-ah Hyun

Associate Curator for Korean Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Wednesday, December 8, 2021 

Presented by the Korean Cultural Center New York and AHL Foundation 

Online Lecture is available on KCCNY Youtube Channel at 12:00pm on December 8.

Korean Cultural Center New York is pleased to present the 2021 Public Lecture Series with AHLFoundation. For the third program, we will explore Korea’s beautiful Lacquerware with mother-of-pearl inlay art with Eleanor Hyun,  Associate Curator for Korean Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. 

This lecture will learn about the long and rich tradition of Lacquerware with mother-of-pearl inlay in Korean art. And introduce the Metropolitan Museum of Art's upcoming exhibition <Shell and Resin: Korean Mother-of-Pearl and Lacquer>. The lecturer will also explore the Met’s  collection of Korean lacquerware with nearly 30 examples from the twelfth century to the present.