One of Taiwan’s most prestigious honors in the fields of art and culture, the 16th annual Taishin Arts Awards were announced at a ceremony held in Taipei on Jun 2. Established by the Taishin Bank Foundation for Arts and Culture, the Taishin Arts Awards honor outstanding works presented in Taiwan over the preceding year in the visual and performing arts.
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The winners of the 15th Taishin Arts Awards, including Ghost Mountain Ghost Shovel Art Collective, Huang Ya-li, Xie Zhongqi, LipingLiping, Liu Fang-yi and Lee Shih-yang in the Visual Arts category; Annual Grand Prize Winner Chia-wei Hsu; and Liu Kuan Hsiang inView More >
“Theater of the Road” Transforms the Path of Refugees into a Place of Learning: A Report on European Thinkbelt/McDonald’s Radio University By Chiaki Soma Above: Entrance of the Künstlerhaus Mousonturm. Below: The theater café. All images: Unless otherwise noted, photoView More >
Hsu Che-Yu – Microphone Test (2015), installation view in the 14th Taishin Arts Award Exhibition at the Museum of National Taipei University of Education (MoNTUE), 2016. Courtesy Taishin Bank Foundation for Arts and Culture, Taipei. The prize winners of thisView More >
The artist Takahiro Iwasaki will represent Japan at the 57th Venice Biennale, it was announced at a press conference held Jun 15 at the Japan Foundation headquarters in Tokyo. Under the current system, the Japan Pavilion exhibition is decided throughView More >
Installation view of “Altering Nativism – Sound Cultures in Post-War Taiwan,” Grand Prize winner of the 13th Taishin Arts Award. Courtesy Taishin Bank Foundation for Arts and Culture. TheCube Project Space’s exhibition, “Altering Nativism – Sound Cultures in Post-War Taiwan,”View More >
The artist and writer Genpei Akasegawa has died Oct 26 at the age of 77 after a series of health issues – beginning with stomach cancer, discovered in 2011 – it has been reported. Born in March 1937 in Yokohama,View More >
The Japanese conceptual artist On Kawara died in New York City at the age of 81, it was learned on Jul 10. Born in 1933 in Kariya, Aichi Prefecture, Kawara began his career as a member of Tokyo’s postwar avant-gardeView More >
Still from 12th Taishin Arts Award Grand Prize winner Su Yu-hsien’s Hua-Shan-Qiang (2013), video, 21 min 8 sec. Courtesy Taishin Arts Award. Artist Su Yu-hsien has been awarded the grand prize of the 12th Taishin Arts Award, it was announcedView More >
Koki Tanaka – “abstract speaking – sharing uncertainty and collective acts,” installation view, the Japan Pavilion, 55th Venice Biennale, 2013. Photo Keizo Kioku, courtesy the Japan Foundation. Koki Tanaka has been named the Deutsche Bank Artist of the Year 2015,View More >
Artist Chiharu Shiota (right) with curator Hitoshi Nakano in front of their maquette for the Japan Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale in 2015. Chiharu Shiota will represent Japan at the upcoming 56th Venice Biennale in 2015, it was announcedView More >