In the wake of Lai Ching-te’s presidential inauguration a number of Taiwanese entertainers that work in the Chinese market have made statements expressing their opposition to Taiwanese independence. This has often taken the form of entertainers reposting statements from Chinese state-run outlet CGTV...
On August 1, 2020, the National Museum of China launched “Unity is Strength: An Art Exhibition on the Fight Against COVID-19”, displaying 200 works created during the COVID-19 pandemic featuring themes such as rescue scenes and epidemic prevention. This exhibition places Xi at the center of authoritarian power, as well as China’s pairing of prosperity and social control, with regards to the fight against COVID-19...
The National Museum of Taiwan History was among one of the national museums to experience a significant decrease in visitor numbers as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. How can a museum that relies on in-person visitation, history exhibitions, and hands-on education programs stay connected with visitors during a global crisis? In particular, the museum responded by utilizing its Facebook page to stay connected with its visitors and moving some exhibitions and collections online...
With much international praise of Taiwan’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, in avoiding expansive lockdown measures and avoiding domestic transmission of the coronavirus, a major factor in Taiwan’s successes has been the ability of the government and society to communicate information about measures to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. As such, examining the aesthetics of the COVID-19 pandemic in Taiwanese society may be instructive...
As with the past several elections since the 2014 Sunflower Movement, young candidates continued to be the source of much creativity during 2020 election campaigning, where aesthetics were concerned...
The Living Mall, also known as the Core Pacific City, the sphere-shaped mall in Songshan district, is shutting down on Saturday, November 30th. The mall, auctioned for $38 billion earlier this year, will be destroyed and replaced with office buildings less than 20 years after opening its doors...
Just north of Taipei Main Station, a black mannequin stands in an open plaza. Emerging from torrents of white medicine bottles, the mannequin wears sheets of white plastic threads that cling to its body like a second skin...
New Bloom editor Brian Hioe interviewed Ivan Gros regarding the Anti-Ke-ai Manifesto and an ongoing print exhibition at the MBMore Gallery concerning the manifesto...
Taiwan Economic and Cultural Office representatives organized several panel discussions and tabled at the New York Comic-Con in New York City in early October this year, hoping to promote Taiwanese comics. However, promotion efforts showed many places for improvement...
