TAIPEI — A Taiwanese museum is due to stage an exhibition of the work of Ai Weiwei, an event the prominent Chinese artist and activist will not be attending, according to officials. "Ai Weiwei Absent" will open in the municipal Taipei Fine Arts Museum ...full story

He's also known as an innovator of color lithography for print media, though this has more to do with advertising and journalism than fine art photography. For this, the Taipei Fine Arts Museum (TFAM) has given over its second floor space and allowed ...full story

Tsai's art reflects and conserves her thoughts, which in turn are platforms for viewers' reflections and perceptions. Charwei presently lives and works in Taipei and Paris, has had solo exhibitions in places all over the world — like Taipei, Paris, ...full story

Their first No Photos event was in June last year, and a second is being held at Revolver in Taipei tomorrow. “We loved the irony of it,” said Vigar, who also contributes to the Taipei Times. “I wanted to have a party — what am I going to do, shoot it ...full story

To redress this, Targett created Life Support Systems, a beautiful triptych currently on display at Craft Victoria in Melbourne, Australia and to be exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei in Taiwan in February 2012. ...full story

Taipei, Oct. 11 (CNA) President Ma Ying-jeou received interactive artist Huang Hsin-chien at the Presidential Office Tuesday and recognized his work in unfolding traditional art forms in an innovative configuration. Huang, an associate professor at the ...full story

TAIPEI — Taiwan's top museum, which houses one of the world's largest Chinese imperial art collections, has launched an expansion plan similar to France's Grand Louvre project, an official said Sunday. The decade-long plan starting in 2012, ...full story

At the age of 69, Lan was named one of the world's top 10 -watercolor -painters by the European Art Critic Society and the American Art Critic Society. Though watercolors tended not to fetch as high a price as oil paintings because of the difficulties ...full story

Taipei, Oct. 6 (CNA) Maywa Denki, a Japanese creative performance group and design firm that produces unique musical instruments, will be one of the groups stirring up Taipei during the upcoming 2011 Digital Performing Arts Festival. ...full story

Taipei, Oct. 6 (CNA) Yang Chung-heng, CEO of Quanta Arts Foundation and art director of the 2011 Digital Performing Arts Festival in Taipei, praised late Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Jobs as a great artist who was the best example of how technology and ...full story