“Household items can become works of art,” home decor artist Huang Ssu-wei (黃思維) said as she used decoupage techniques to cover notebooks, chairs and tables with cutouts of decorative napkins and colored wrapping paper, turning old items into works ...full story
Liu Chen-tan (劉辰旦), a political prisoner during the White Terror era, is showcasing a series of ink wash paintings he completed while behind bars, offering the public a different perspective on the nation's recent history through art. Charged with ...full story
Taiwanese artist Vincent J.F. Huang (黃瑞芳) is to represent Tuvalu at the Venice Biennale this year and set up the South Pacific nation's first national pavilion at the major international art exhibition. Huang, who has visited Tuvalu twice to carry ...full story
In the News. MOC to launch 'art bank' next year. MOC to launch 'art bank' next year ROC Minister of Culture Lung Ying-tai announces an art bank project March 25 in Taipei City. (CNA). Publication Date:03/26/2013; Source: Taiwan Today; By Rachel Chan ...full story
From starting out as a spray-painter skulking about in alleyways, a graffiti artist known as “Bounce” has brought graffiti into the halls of mainstream art — a move which the Taiwanese artist claims is both challenging the endless possibilities of the ...full story
Chen's work also serves as a statement of how we perceive media and the loss of visual art, over the past half century, as a medium through which we come to know and evaluate the world. As the gallery's exhibition blurb says, this allows Chen “to ...full story
As the name of the exhibit already suggests, the artist will be engaging you in a tale of two cities through paintings and watercolors from now until April 7. The canvases from Taiwan were created during a monthlong stay in the Taipei area where the ...full story
A scientific television series that explores the workings of artists' brains while they perform will be premiered later this month, the first in a series of joint film projects between Taiwan and France. The first episode of the series will feature a ...full story
The exhibition not only illustrates the maturity of an important Taiwanese artist, but also gives the viewer a sense of the development of modern painting in Taiwan. □ MOT/Arts, 3F, 22, Fuxing S Rd Sec 1, Taipei City (台北市復興南路一段22號3樓), tel ...full story
Four of these are large-scale oil paintings — Returning Home (1998), Blessed Hualien (2010), Formosan Landlocked Salmon (2011) and Glory of the God Tree Forest (2012) — that are being unveiled for the first time at Taipei Fine Arts Museum. The second ...full story