Born in 1929 and now based in Paris, Kim Tschang-Yeul is a prolific Korean artist who enjoys great success in the contemporary Western art world. He has been an influential figure in the modern art movement in South Korea and the creation of Korean Contemporary Artists Association in the 1950s. He lived in New York in the 1960s and moved to Paris in the 1970s. .....

Wen Cheng-ming (1470-1550), was one of the Four Masters of Ming Dynasty, along with Shen Zhou, Tang Yin and Qiu Ying. This handscroll was done by Wen when he was 79 years old. It was based on the texts of Latter Red Cliff by Su Shi. It tells, in eight sections, the story of Su Shi and friends revisiting Red Cliff. Since 2011 the National Palace museum initiated ‘Painting Anime’, which are six series of high-resolution long scroll painting animation. Through the latest technology, four high-resolution 1080 HD projectors seamlessly unfold long scroll paintings on the light wall to present the classical scenery in Chinese paintings. ‘Painting Anime’ reproduced six popular paintings, including this one by Wen Zhengming. .....

Through January 13, 2013, Taipei Fine Arts Museum is hosting an exhibition which showcases the new photographic works that the Museum has collected in the past two years. The collection is composed of photographs taken over the course of 20 years by eight photographers born in the 1950s and 60s. Since the 1990s, photography in Taiwan has continued to evolve with the flourishing new imaging media, and the exhibition shows how, by using documentary photography, .....

Over the past years, the Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts has been holding several artist-in-residence programs so that the selected artists can have a place to make art freely. This year, two Maori artists from New Zealand, George Nuku and Tracey Tawhiao, as well as two artists from the Truku Tribe in Taiwan, Idas Losin and DonDon Hounwn, are invited as resident artists. The combination of the four artists is an interesting attempt to cross the boundary between visual arts and performance arts. It is expected that, through the exchanges of artistic creativity among these artists, .....

Featuring some 40 artistic projects, many of them conceived specifically for the exhibition, “Modern Monsters / Death and Life of Fiction” addresses the relationship between historiography and the imaginary. Fiction occupies the blind spot of historiographical and documentary work, as it speaks of the fundamental underside of modernity, its dialectics and paradoxes, as well as the systemic terror that lurks behind modernity’s emancipatory promises. Drawing upon a recent study titled "The Monster That is History" by Taiwanese literature historian David Der Wei Wang, the exhibition engages with the aesthetics of monstrosity. Wang suggests that the ancient Chinese monster Taowu served as an "objective correlative" of the human account of past experience. .....