DAM is currently in the midst of its next exhibition, the weird and wonderful Animamix Biennale (alongside a display of breathtaking photography by Daegu-born Kwon Boo-Moon) and is thusly still worth a visit especially considering it's so cheap to enter (2,000₩ a ticket, or, just over £1) and just as easy to get to.
In fact it's rather wonderful having an active art museum here in the Apple City at all, we don't have to suffer a god-awful 3D trick-eye museums or insipid celebrity wax work shite. DAM always seems to have two or three art displays of various classes going, and it can make for a nicely cheap weekend day excursion after the winter holidays overspend.
How to get there:
Get to Daegu Grand Park.
Exit from Exit 1.
Jump on the free shuttle bus that will take you right to front doors.
Shuttle Bus Operating Times & Info. Thanks VisitDaegu!
N.B. There is no grand park at Daegu Grand Park station, or anywhere in Daegu for that matter.
Soundtrack:
Haisuinonasa - Reflection (BC)
Arty Japanese Video For Arty Japanese Music For Arty Japanese Art.
This is not by Yayoi Kusama, but memory cells fail me:
How slack am I? Exhibit A; the Yayoi Kusama Exhibition ran at the wonderful Daegu Art Museum (DAM) for nearly five months, and I'm only just getting round to writing on it. So if you enjoy the spotty works of the Japanese artist and writer (the highest selling living female artists donchaknow) you'll have to venture China-wards...being that the "A Dream I Dreamed" tour is currently enlightening Shanghai. (Someone should update the Wikipedia page on that actually...)
A Pop-Art stalwart her work is both rather ace and most encouraging of arse-watery past-time of self-photography to which the Korean population are always happy to oblige to. I was mostly enthralled by her work with 'infinity', mirrors and lights working in unison to create seemingly endless space. It's only a shame one was not allowed more time within some of these spaces as they were the most popular pieces on show.