At the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea in Jongno-gu, Seoul, the exhibition "Lee Kang-so: Where the Wind Meets the Water" is on view until April 13.

Works the size of postcards and bathroom tiles are challenging the market’s appetite for grand scales.

It is hard to pull away from Korean artist Lee Jinju’s “Black Paintings”. Faces, body parts and other objects, painted realistically with the finest of brushstrokes, loom out from what ...