The first building in Taiwan designed by world-renowned Japanese architect Tadao Ando, the Asia University Museum of Art, is set to open in the middle of next year, the museum's chief curator said yesterday. The museum, the first one designed by Ando ...full story
INTERVIEW: The director behind the artist. A new documentary by Alison Klayman on the life and art of Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei is screening now in Taipei. While the film has not been shown in China yet, Ai has seen it and gave it a big ...full story
Art Taipei's organizers have reason for excitement, because with lousy economies in the US, Europe and now perhaps China, this year could have potentially been pretty awful. Instead, their results confirm the art market's growing embrace of Asian ...full story
“A specific aim of the showcase was to assist these smaller groups in opening up channels to the international arts scene,” Chang told the Taipei Times in a phone interview last week. Chang added that over the last three years in which the Arts ...full story
The Taipei leg of the exhibition closed in October and his Chinese-language Facebook page now counts more than 40,000 fans – more than his English-language page. According to the artist's manager, there are also plans to extend “The Art of the Brick ...full story
Art Taipei 2012, Asian contemporary art fair, is on show through 11 November 2012 in the Taiwanese capital, with over 150 participating galleries. On the occasion, KaiKai Kiki Gallrey Taipei will exhibit a selection of various artists, including ...full story
The minister's remarks came at a news conference for the Art Taipei 2012 exposition. The art bank is a commercial means of increasing exposure by taking visual artworks into the meeting rooms and hallways of everyday life, she noted. “This ...full story
Culture Minister Lung Ying-tai said at the opening of Art Taipei 2012 that her ministry is planning to launch an "art bank" on Jan. 1, 2013 to invest NT$70 million (US$2.4 million) in purchasing artworks from Taiwan's emerging young artists next year.and more »full story
Established in 1992, Art Taipei is the longest running art fair of its kind in Asia and has grown in importance and influence each year. In 2012 it achieved record participation from over 150 galleries hailing from 16 countries. Art Taipei 2012 is ...full story
This month in the Taipei Fine Arts Museum (臺北市立美術館), Shen exhibits his complete collection of Taiwanese vaudeville troupe photography. The troupes are a unique piece of cultural heritage from Taiwan's performance industry. Peaking around the ...full story
