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South Korea Gets the Lee Bul Survey It’s Long Deserved

Lee Bul, a star of the South Korean art scene, has remarkably never been the subject of a large-scale survey in her home country—not until now, anyway. In September, Seoul’s Leeum Museum of Art will showcase the full of Lee’s oeuvre, which has taken up body politics in bizarre, off-putting, and occasionally even smelly ways. Cyborgs, abortions, and fantastical creatures figure in the works of the 1980s and ’90s that made her famous. Whether those works remain as shocking as they once did is one open question for this show, which was co-organized with Hong Kong’s M+ museum.