Taiwan's national hero and leader, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, moved the art pieces to the island from the Palace Museum in Beijing's Forbidden City, following the defeat of his Nationalist forces at the hands of the Communists on the mainland and ...full story
The Taipei Fine Arts Museum opened a Children's Art Education Center on Friday to mark Children's Day. The center has an exhibit gallery, an interactive showcase area, a creative workshop, and an area for preschool aged children. The center will ...full story
Young Brussels-based artist Francois Marcadon has designed an atypical ad campaign inspired by his face. Look and Feel Your Best (玩美體態,你也行!), three long wall paintings on view at the Taipei Metro, features Marcardon's face staring at passersby ...full story
Chiu made himself a target for netizens' derision when, while speaking on a China CCTV program, he pointed to a photograph of the student occupation of the Legislative Yuan in Taipei and said that the sunflowers were actually bananas. Other ...full story
On Monday, March 31, the director of the National Palace Museum of Taipei, Ms. Fung Ming-chu (left), welcomed Asian Art Museum director Dr. Jay Xu (right) to Taipei to sign a Memorandum of Understanding between the two museums. Photo courtesy the ...full story
Over 200 protesters swarmed the steps of the Vancouver Art Gallery on Saturday in a show of solidarity with Taiwanese students, hours before planned demonstrations in Taiwan that on Sunday attracted hundreds of thousands to Ketagalan Boulevard to ...full story
Stray Dogs will be shown for three months from August at the Museum of National Taipei University of Education, with a related installation exhibition. Tsai said he was tired of making films and Stray Dogs would probably be his last feature film. He ...full story
A work made up of 3, 200 porcelain crabs by Chinese artist Ai Weiwei is displayed October 2, 2012 at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, DC. The first US survey of the work of the dissident artist opens this weekend in Washington, shaped by his ongoing ...full story
Dutch Old Masters from the Mauritshuis, the Hague, on the Tokyo leg of a world tour topped our annual international survey of exhibitions in 2012. In The Art Newsaper's 2013 survey, the top two paying shows were again in Asia but of a very different ...full story
A young graphic illustrator has earned international recognition by becoming the first Taiwanese to have his work featured on the cover of ImagineFX magazine, a leading monthly journal devoted to science fiction, fantasy and digital art. Yu Han-yuan ...full story