After Louvre-Lens, Paek Yunzo opens two-person show in Seoul

Since September, a painting by the Korean artist Paek Yunzo has hung under the same roof as a bronze lion by Takashi Murakami and cat figures from ancient Egypt. Her 2024 oil painting "Free Riders" is one of more than 300 works on view in "So Cute! The Art of Happiness," a wide-ranging survey of cuteness in art that runs through Jan. 18 at the Louvre-Lens, the Louvre’s regional branch in the former coal-mining town in northern France. The painting is one of several with the same title in Paek’s