Sophie Taeuber-Arp, "Plan profilés en courbes et plan," 1935,

Gouache on paper in an artist's frame,

Sheet: 13 ¾ x 10 ¼ in. , Artist's frame: 19 ½ x 16 x 0 7⁄8 in.

Choi Byungso (1943–2025)

Choi Byung-so (82), a renowned artist known for his “black paintings” created by repeatedly drawing lines on newspaper with ballpoint pens and pencils, died on the 11th.

After graduating from Chung-Ang University's Western Painting Department and Keimyung University Graduate School of Art, he became a leading figure in the Daegu Modern Art Movement in the late 1970s.

Through his “erasing” process—repeatedly drawing and covering newspapers and magazines with ballpoint pens or pencils—he pioneered a unique formal language.

His "Newspaper Erasing" series, where the paper appears charred like burnt wood from his meditative, repetitive strokes, remains iconic.

He received the Lee In-sung Art Prize in 2010. 

Alexander Calder, Brass Spear, 1949,

Metal, brass, wire and paint,

Joan Mitchell