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A South Korean Artist’s Experimental Fiber Works, on View in California
This week, the 94-year-old South Korean fiber artist Lee ShinJa receives her first North American museum retrospective at California’s Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive. “I felt like she needed to have a space of her own,” says Victoria Sung, the curator of “Lee ShinJa: Drawing With Thread.” “She anticipated so many trends in the contemporary art world in relation to fiber.” The exhibit, which spans Lee’s oeuvre from the late 1950s to the early 2000s, features 40 woven works ranging from smaller-scale wall hangings to monumental tapestries. Lee, who learned by watching her grandmother weave, was interested in combining sewing, dying and knotting techniques — which were considered separate genres at the time — to create new forms and textures. She experimented with everyday textiles like grain sacks and mosquito nets in her early years; later on, she thrifted items like sweaters and tablecloths, then unraveled and reconstructed the materials. “Critics accused her of basically ruining embroidery in Korea,” says Sung, “but she was interested in mixing everything together.” For “Ten Longevity Symbols” (1958), for example, Lee subverted the Joseon dynasty-era folding screen, transforming an otherwise static composition into a dynamic tableau with appliquéd and zigzag-stitched shapes that she sewed freehand. “Lee ShinJa: Drawing With Thread” is on view through Feb. 1, 2026, bampfa.org.
— Jinnie Lee
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A Cheerful Hotel With a Garden Terrace in Marseille
Le Grand Juste occupies a former 19th-century convent in Marseille, the Mediterranean port city that’s become the France’s answer to Berlin, or the place young creative people want to visit and, increasingly, live and work in. It’s the second property from the Marseille-based Juste hotel group, whose first hotel, the nearby 18-room Maison Juste, opened in 2023. Le Grand Juste, which opened in July with 50 rooms, includes a shared living room with books, vinyl records and a large south-facing garden terrace. Though it’s always staffed, Le Grand Juste is also fully digital, so guests check in and out and get a room key on their phones. Digitally accessible luggage storage spaces are available for early arrivals or those with evening departures, and a bathroom with shower is available even after checkout, which means you can freshen up after a day at the beach before catching a late train to Paris. There’s also an amenities station on every floor with complimentary tea and coffee, a microwave oven, dishes for in-room dining and a self-service closet filled with extra pillows, earplugs and other accessories. Each room is furnished with carefully refurbished secondhand pieces — one might feature an Art Deco armoire, while another has ’60s night stands. Livingston and Limmat, two of the most exciting restaurants in the city, are a short walk from the hotel. From about $120 a night, justejuste.com.
— Alexander Lobrano
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Watercolor ‘Dreamscapes’ Made to Linger Over
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