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Ik-Joong Kang Review
By Ik-Joong Kang  Education is crucial part of center's goal
By Matt Batcheldor  Inspired by the Champ A visit to the new Muhammad Ali Center
By Gordon Marino  The Vision of Community in a World of Books
 The Greatest: Muhammad Ali Center: A showcase for global ideals
by Dave Hoekstra
 Angelo, August/December 2004 Buddha with Lucky Objects Ik-Joong Kang
By Karen Gahafer Press Release, 2004 Happy World at Princeton Public Library
Would you like to build a wall of peace? by Nancy Russell Princeton Public Library mural will be multlingual
By Jennifer Potash Princeton packet, Friday, march 12, 2004 Portrait of the artist
By Jillian Kalonick Town Topics, Feb. 4, 2004 Library Artist Seeks World Language Student
Editorial department Princeton Packet, Feb.3, 2004 Library Mural will be Multilingual
By Editorial Department Town topics, January 14, 2004
Community Invited to Help Create Art for New Library by Susan Thomas The Trenton Times, Jan. 18, 2004 Artwork by donation
Bits, pieces arrive for library mural By Chris Karmoil Princeton Packet, Jan.13 2004
Artist invites public to donate artifacts for library's new mural By Jennifer Potash
The Princeton Packet, December 12, 2003 Library Mural to Tell Princeton's Story
By Jennifer Potash Brooklyn Heights Press & Cobble Hill News, November 27, 2003
'Buddha' Artist Explains His 'Diaries' and 'Notes' By Abby Ranger Exhibition Catalogue, 2003 Ik-Joong Kang at Sabina Lee Gallery, LA, CA
By James Glass
Sculpture Magazine, Sep. 2002 ik-joong kang in the United Nations
By Jonathan Peyser Exhibition Catalog, 2002 Ik-Joong Kang : Cologne Pagoda & other works
Museum fur Ostasiatische Kunst - Staatliche Museen zu Berlin by Jaana Pruess
Museum of Asian Art in Berlin By Uta Rahman-Steinert (Curator) Exhibition Catalog BRIDGES - INTERSPACES - SKY Pruess & Ochs Gallery
By Jaana Pruess
United Nations Secretariat news (November - December 2001)
"Amazed World" By Val Castronovo Amazed World Exhibition catalog, 2001 Amazed World
By Soon-Young Yoon Press Release, 2001 The Amazed World
By Ik-Joong Kang
The Virginian Pilot -The Daily Break, January 27, 2000
Sweet Salute By Teresa Annas (Staff Writer)
Neueus aus Sammlung Ludwig, Exhibition Catalogue 1999
The Art of Ik-Joong Kang by Eugenie Tsai, (Senior Curator, Permanent Collection Whitney Museum of American Art)
Art Asia Pacific, Number 19, 1998 LIVING ON THE EDGE
Borders and cultures in the work of Ik-Joong Kang By Joan Kee
The Virginian Pilot The Daily Break, Saturday, December 13, 1997
Worldly Visions By Teresa Annas ART NEWS, March 1997 In the Palm of His Hand
By Carol Lutfy Exhibition Catalogue, 1997 Venice Biennale
By Kwang-su Oh (Commissioner of Korean Pavilion)
by Soon Young Yoon
Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris By Grace Glueck The Village Voice, July 30 1996 Art Short List : Ik-Joong Kang
By Kim Levin Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris July 12-September 27
1996 8490 Days Of Memory by Eugenie Tsai Art Net Magazine, July 1996 8,490 Days of Memory
The Whitney Museum at Philip Morris by Joan Kee Reviews, June 27, 1996 365 Days of English.
Assemblages by Ik-Joong Kang at the Contemporary Arts Forum. By Marina Walker
By Marina Walker Korea Times, March 30, 1996
Rising young artist gathers and mixes images of America By Cho Yoon-jung
By Yi, Joo-Heon (Director of Art Space Seoul) A.MAGAZINE, 1996 Home Sweet Hamage
By Kay Kamiyama
The New York Times, Sunday, September 18, 1994
From Korea, the Makings of a Dialogue With a New Homeland By Vivien Raynor
Whitney’s art "happening" By Carolee Ross Space Magazine(Korea), 1994
Multiple / Dialogue: Paik, Nam-June and Kang, Ik-Joong (Whitney Museum of American Art at Champion, 7. 22 - 9.28, 1994) By Jeong Lee Sanders San Francisco Examiner, Wednesday, Feburary 2, 1994
Remarkable Opening for Capp Street By David Bonetti San Francisco Chronicle, Jan 26, 1994 ‘Future Is Now at Capp Street’
By Kenneth Baker collaboration with Nam June Paik by Michael Rush
New York Newsday, February 4, 1992
An Installation of 7,000 Ik-Joong Kang Works Tiny Windows on the World By Esther Iverem
By Eugenie Tsai
The New York Times, Sunday, March 17, 1991
2 Artists View the World in Statements With 3,142 Images By Helen A. Harrison
Throw Everything Together and Add By Arlene Raven
Exhibit features thousands of pocket-sized paintings By Eileen Watkins
Montclair State College Art Gallery November 2-December 19, 1990 By Byron Kim
Ik-Joong Kang By Marion Budick
By Ik-Joong Kang
It is a great honor to be a part of a dream factory, The Muhammad Ali Center. My name is ik-joong kang. I am a painter and a collector. I collect dreams, dreams of the children. For the last 7 years, I’ve collected over 125,000 children’s drawings from 141 countries. I asked children their dreams and children answered back with a 3"x3" paper filled with their stories. The first drawing I received was from a child in Cuba, with a surprising image of Palestinian and Israeli children hugging each other. Children facing severe hardships, including orphans in Mexico, refugees in Azerbaijan and children with Aids in Uganda participated. More than 300 drawings came from Afghan refugee camps in Pakistan. A 12 years old Uzbekistan girl says, “I have six sisters but I want brother", in her drawing of herself pushing a little brother in a stroller. A boy from Congo made a beautiful drawing with an inscription, " the way to survive in Africa - never see, never talk and never hear". A young Switzerland child designed a house walking with robot legs. A 10-year-old Italian boy is making a wonderful over- head kick in World Cup soccer game. In 1999 we created “100,000 Dreams”. Thousands of drawings were displayed inside a one-kilometer long greenhouse near the DMZ, borderline between North and South Korea. It was lit up at night, as if to invite North Korean children on the other side to come out and play. We followed this project with “Amazed World 2001,” an installation composed of 34,000 children’s drawings from all over the world, at the headquarters of the United Nations in New York. The project was supposed to be open on Sept. 11, 2001. The dreams of the children were waiting to be heard and seen in uptown New York, while the tragedy struck in downtown Manhattan. Drawings are from the mountains in Tibet, street corners in Hong Kong and from the war zone in Iraq. Amazed World is like a building a big house, house with a big roof and big wall, but with many small windows. Windows of the dream. Children come into the big room and say hello to each other and hug each other, and all their windows of dream placed next to each other for us to see. Now we plan to collect millions or billions of children’s dreams, which, I believe, can connect the villages, countries and the entire world. One drawing says, “A wall of dream can break down the wall of hatred and ignorance that separated us for a long time.” Children’s drawing has a magical power. Through their drawings, a divider becomes a connector, a winter becomes a spring. A night becomes a morning. And the enemy becomes the friends. “What is your dream?” When I asked. A child answered back. “Hey, Mr.kang, what was your dream and what is your dream now?” We have to answer. Now. Before it’s too late. Thank you. Courier-Journal, Nov. 19,2005 Education is crucial part of center's goals Lessons have global reach By Matt Batcheldor
Artist Ik-Joong Kang calls them a window to children worldwide -- 5,000 drawings from 141 countries decorating a 44-foot mural in the Muhammad Ali Center. Kang spent a week affixing the 3-inch-by-3-inch wood blocks that reproduce children's drawings. Kang solicited the images by contacting schools, orphanages and hospitals around the globe.
The mural includes 500 drawings from Kentucky children collected by the state Department for Libraries and Archives. The images depict each child's dream. One captures a rainbow. Another shows children holding hands and dancing. "If we come close to our dream, our window, we can see many things," Kang said. The importance of children to the Ali Center is reflected on that wall, and it goes to the heart of the center's purpose, its president, Michael Fox, said. "Foremost, this center is about the development of children," he said. The center is developing lessons for children from preschool to high school that can be used inside and outside the center. It also is building technology that will allow educational broadcasts to be beamed around the world and translated into other languages. A host of games and activities are also maintained at the center's Web site: alicenter.org. The center's efforts have attracted high-profile attention from the United Nations and such celebrities as Angelina Jolie, who donated $100,000, center spokeswoman Jeanie Kahnke said. The center also is partnering with the United Nations' Global Peace Schools program, helping to develop curriculum. The program, with schools in 17 countries and 20 states, is designed to convey the horrors of armed conflict around the world and the value of peace. Closer to home, Jefferson County Public Schools is incorporating the center's curriculum, said Superintendent Stephen Daeschner, who is on the center's board of directors. For example, public schools train groups of children to mediate disputes among peers. "I'm convinced that as we develop this thing it will be a super asset for our kids," Daeschner said. Leading the center's educational arm is educational services manager Michele Hemenway, with help from a youth council comprising 20 area children representing public, private and home schools. The center has an educational staff of three and a dedicated budget. The curriculum Hemenway is developing will include global studies, citizenship, peacemaking and personal well-being. Educational programming will follow the six traits emphasized by the center -- respect, confidence, conviction, dedication, spirituality and giving. For example, the center is enlisting a group of community figures such as storytellers or musicians who could visit schools and give dramatic presentations on the trait "respect." Other work with children also predates the center's opening. In summer 2003, the center provided source material for 13 high school students who were charged with writing a libretto and score for an operetta based on Ali's life. The work, "Muhammad Ali: Outside the Ring," sponsored by the Kentucky Opera, was finished last year. Not only is the Ali Center a place to mediate global conflicts, but the center also will train people to end conflicts in the home, Fox said. It all starts with children. "If we had not the interest and commitment … to really help children realize their hopes and dreams, there would be no reason for the center," Fox said. The Wall Street Journal, December 1, 2005 Inspired by the Champ A visit to the new Muhammad Ali Center. BY GORDON MARINO
LOUISVILLE, Ky.--Physically broken from his many years in the ring, Muhammad Ali could easily be regarded as a walking--or, rather, shuffling--argument against professional pugilism. Nevertheless, it was through boxing that the silver-tongued sweet scientist was able to reach beyond the ropes and inspire people around the globe. Over the past decade, many individuals have come together in an attempt to institutionalize the boxer's unique spirit in the form of a Muhammad Ali Center. On the eve of the center's inaugural event, which brought Bill Clinton and many other luminaries to this river town, Mr. Ali's wife, Lonnie, told me: "Back in the mid-'90s, a distant relative put on an Ali boxing memorabilia show in Louisville. It was a great success. Afterward, we were approached by entrepreneurs who wanted to build a museum." Because of her husband's ailments, Mrs. Ali does virtually all of the talking for the man once known as the Louisville Lip. She explained: "Muhammad was not interested in something that put the spotlight on his boxing accomplishments and on the past. Instead, he wanted it to be a living gift that reached out to people and especially children, encouraging them to be respectful of one another and to develop self-confidence and self-discipline--qualities that enabled Muhammad to realize his dreams." Jerry Abramson, mayor of Louisville, told me that the city donated the land for the building. He also proudly noted that 40% of the $80 million raised for the project came from individuals and corporations in Mr. Ali's home state of Kentucky. The CEO of the center, Michael Fox, added that there is a continuing campaign to raise $20 million more to establish an endowment to cover the operating costs. Though much work remains to be done, the 93,000-square-foot center opened to the public on Nov. 21.
In addition to being a repository for important boxing artifacts, the center, in conjunction with the University of Louisville, will host international programs aimed at promoting peace and justice. Ina Brown Bond, chairwoman of its board, observed: "There are many governments that are suspicious of the United States but not of Muhammad Ali, and that gives us hope that the center could perform a special function in mitigating international conflicts." One of the chief architects, Lee Skolnick, struggled with the task of designing a building that captured the characteristics of the man who inspired it. Viewed from the exterior, the center is thick and massive at the base. But as the eye moves up the structure, it becomes lighter and more airy. Mr. Skolnick observed: "Our understanding of Ali is intertwined with the emergence of mass media in the early '60s and '70s. Most people came to know Ali through media images and sound bites, and I wanted to convey that fact in the architecture. For example, the roof is in the shape of butterfly wings, echoing that famous Ali adage, 'float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.' And the exterior is embedded with colored ceramic-tile representations of well-known press images of the champ." Mr. Skolnick and the chief curator, Susan Shaffer Nahmias, also envisioned a space that was as warm, generous and playful as Mr. Ali. A visit to the museum begins in the amphitheater with a powerful video about his life that is strung together with lines from Rudyard Kipling's poem "If." From there, one moves on to two floors of interactive exhibits that seek to show Mr. Ali's development from a boxer into a humanitarian. The sheer preponderance of moralizing messages can be grating. And one visitor complained that as generous an individual as Mr. Ali is, the center should be generous enough to include a small display honoring another less-self-promoting boxing champion who also broke down racial barriers, Joe Louis. As an athlete, Mr. Ali had the magical ability to attract interest in his bouts from those who were not ordinarily boxing fans. However, a fascination with boxing will certainly enhance a visitor's experience of the center. Though there are many exhibits that would fit well in a civil-rights museum and others that explore the debate over the Vietnam War, the boxing-related presentations (such as the robe that Elvis Presley gave Mr. Ali) pack the real punch. Many are just plain fun. There is a mock-up of Mr. Ali's Deer Lake training facilities in which visitors can learn to hit a speed bag, and there is a strange contraption that conveys an impression of the force of a heavyweight punch. After a virtual journey through the boxer's life and times, which does not eschew discussions of some of the icon's moral blemishes, such as Mr. Ali's womanizing and his ruthless behavior toward Joe Frazier, patrons follow a spiral staircase into a hall that is intended to lead them back into themselves. In a room lined with Ik-Joong Kang's poignant mosaic composed of tiles decorated by children from 141 countries, there is a bank of computers that beckon the visitors to fill out personality questionnaires and articulate their life goals. They are then invited to link up with an online coach who will help them fulfill their aspirations.
There were recordings of Mr. Ali's fights reverberating as I strolled around the exhibits with Angelo Dundee, Mr. Ali's legendary trainer. As we rounded a corner, the 84-year-old Mr. Dundee glimpsed a huge photo of Cassius Clay--as Mr. Ali was known back then--with his mouth taped shut. Mr. Dundee chuckled and burst out, "Hey, I did that. I put the tape on his mouth." Mr. Ali was, of course, famous for his braggadocio and predictions, and Mr. Dundee, who knew a little about fanning interest in a fight, used the tape as a photo prop. Later Mr. Dundee wistfully added: "Being with Ali was like riding a comet. I was blessed to share in his life. This center is a fantastic monument to a man who deserves it because he has been so good for the whole human race." Mr. Marino writes on boxing for The Wall Street Journal.
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