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NASA Exhibition Coming to Taiwan

NASA Exhibition Coming to Taiwan

The NASA — A Human Adventure exhibition will be held in Taiwan in May 2016 to present 300 space objects, including moon landers and equipment used during the Apollo and Space Shuttle programs. Taiwan is the eighth stop of the exhibition around the world and the fourth in Asia. The show is expected to be...Continue reading
New Exhibition to Highlight ROC WWII War Effort

New Exhibition to Highlight ROC WWII War Effort

The Ministry of National Defense is holding an exhibition in Taipei to highlight the ROC’s war effort during World War Two as part of a series of events to mark the 70th anniversary of the end of the war. The exhibition includes a display of twenty four large oil paintings featuring major incidents and battles...Continue reading
Russian Artist to Teach at Yingge Ceramics Museum

Russian Artist to Teach at Yingge Ceramics Museum

A Russian artist is set visit the Yingge Ceramics Museum to teach classes on Russian ceramic arts. Irina Razumovskaya will teach two weekend classes  at the museum in New Taipei City, and will also stage an exhibition of her own work. The residency is part of the Yingge artists’ Village project … which later this...Continue reading
Exhibition Features Aboriginal Crafts at National Taiwan Museum

Exhibition Features Aboriginal Crafts at National Taiwan Museum

An exhibition featuring the crafts of two Aboriginal tribes is available for viewing at the National Taiwan Museum, for a glimpse into the culture and traditions of the Atayal and Paiwan. The show, “Rainbow and Dragonfly: Where the Atayal Clothing Meet the Paiwan Multi-colored Glass Beads”, presents textiles by northern Atayal people, and the colorful...Continue reading
Snoopy's 65th Anniversary Exhibition in Taipei

Snoopy’s 65th Anniversary Exhibition in Taipei

Fans of Snoopy should take advantage of their last chance to check out the 65th anniversary exhibition of the popular Peanuts character. The exhibit at Songhsan Cultural and Creative Park highlights the story of how Snoopy’s creator Charles M. Schulz went from being the son of a small-town barber, to creating a cartoon empire. The...Continue reading
Collection of historic objects coming to the National Palace Museum

Collection of historic objects coming to the National Palace Museum

Mummy of Hornedjitef An exhibition that tells the history of the world through 100 sets of objects is set to open at the National Palace Museum in Taipei this weekend to celebrate the museum’s 90th anniversary. “A History of the World in 100 Objects” began as a radio series produced by BBC Radio 4 and...Continue reading
Hou Hsiaohsien films to be screened at New York museum

Hou Hsiaohsien films to be screened at New York museum

Taiwan’s Ministry of Culture has been working with a New York museum to screen films by Taiwan director Hou Hsiaohsien, starting today. The Museum of the Moving Image in New York will screen 18 films directed by Hou, and five others that he either acted in, wrote the screenplay for, or produced. The international touring...Continue reading
Taipei Biennial 2014 opening at TFAM and around the city

Taipei Biennial 2014 opening at TFAM and around the city

Fans of modern and contemporary art should be excited to hear that the Taipei Biennial 2014 will begin this Saturday at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum, and throughout the city. The exhibition this year is curated by French art critic Nicolas Bourriaud, with the theme of “Art and Its New Ecosystem: A Global Set of...Continue reading
2014 Comic Exhibition in Taipei Draws Record Crowd on Opening Day

2014 Comic Exhibition in Taipei Draws Record Crowd on Opening Day

The 2014 Comic Exhibition in Taipei drew over 100,000 visitors on its first day yesterday, the event’s largest ever opening-day crowd in its 15-year history. According to the Chinese Animation and Comic Publishers Association, some 101,000 people visited the exhibition at Taipei World Trade Center. Some 70 publishers are displaying products at 530 booths at...Continue reading
Typhoon Morakot Documentary and Exhibition Opens Today

Typhoon Morakot Documentary and Exhibition Opens Today

A documentary showing Taiwan’s reconstruction in the wake of 2009’s Typhoon Morakot will premiere on the National Geographic channel today in Taiwan. “Rebuilding Taiwan: Beyond the Storm” will air at 9 p.m. on the fifth anniversary of the date Morakot ripped through Taiwan, causing destruction that killed 681 and left 18 missing. An international film crew...Continue reading
Blizzard To Exhibit at Taipei Trade Show For First Time

Blizzard To Exhibit at Taipei Trade Show For First Time

Blizzard is set to participate in the Taipei Computer Applications Show for the first time this summer. Apparently, Blizzard is going to be a huge presence at the fair, taking up 150 booths, over ten percent of the total 1,100 booths. Blizzard is using the show to highlight its next expansion to World of Warcraft,...Continue reading
Gary Baseman's "The Door is Always Open" Exhibition Debuts at MOCA

Gary Baseman’s “The Door is Always Open” Exhibition Debuts at MOCA

Chances are you don’t know his name, but you probably know his work. Famed illustrator, painter, TV/movie producer, and toy designer Gary Baseman has opened his “The Door is Always Open” exhibition at Taipei’s Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA). The exhibition features over 500 works spanning across three decades of Baseman’s career. For the exhibition,...Continue reading