The deep polarization of many leftist takes on Iran has been telling. The usual suspects–those often known as campists or tankies–have been quick to romanticize assassinated Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as having been a noble fighter against US imperialism...
It's funny. I thought I had nothing to write about. But then I went to the Digital Art Center (DAC) for Cheng HsienYu’s “solo exhibition” Closed and Renovation. Now I really have nothing to write about, and that’s actually something...
Anger has broken out from Taiwanese activists after the forced removal of the Alliance of Referendum for Taiwan/Free Taiwan Party’s occupation encampment outside the Legislative Yuan by the Taipei city police...
On May 2nd, New Bloom’s Brian Hioe sat down with Dr. Tsay Ting-Kuei in New York City, for an interview about the formation of the Free Taiwan Party. Hioe and Tsay then met up again in Taipei in late July, during the Ministry of Education occupation, for some follow-up questions....
If the artwork of Hwang Buh-Ching can be said to be concerned with the artistic representation of “homeland,” as his current exhibition “Homeland: Edge of Desolation” at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei suggests in representing Taiwan, Hwang points to both falsity and authenticity...
The specter of Taiwanese politics is everywhere in the artwork of Dean I-Mei. While, certainly, the artist himself poses his recent exhibition in light of a search for personal identity in the title “Wanted Dean I-Mei,” his search for individual identity is one deeply bound up with Taiwan’s state of unbelonging in the world...
"Can't Quit You" is an autobiographical short film about Zico, a hair stylist based in Hsinchu, Taiwan. It's the story of his first love, a relationship with a man called Yin that blossomed when Zico began his career as a hairstyling assistant in Hsinchu...
