The Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University announces the opening of a contemporary art exhibit, Outside In: New Realms for Taiwan Art, featuring ten artists from Taiwan.

Outside In takes a broad look at what it means to be a Taiwan artist in the art world today. Often driven to urban centers of the United States in order to find recognition for their work, Taiwan artists express their contemporary interests and concerns in a variety of traditional and cutting-edge media. The artists chosen for this particular exhibit deal with a wide range of subject matter including ethnicity, gender, mass consumption, and the environment. Their work, simultaneously innovative and mindful of a collective past, will serve to initiate discussions on Taiwan art in an international setting

Presented in conjunction with the Columbia Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures and Columbia student groups: Asian Pacific Affairs Council, Greater China Initiative, Taiwan Focus, and the Weatherhead Undergraduate Council.

TAIPEI CULTURAL CENTER
1 E. 42nd Street, New York, NY 10017
(between 5th Avenue and Madison)
February 19-March 12, 2008
Monday-Friday, 9 am-7 pm;
Saturday, 9 am-11 am

Artists:
Long Bin CHEN
Wei Jane CHIR
HUANG Shih Chieh
Su-Chen HUNG
Walis LABAI (Diing-wuu WU)
Marc LIN
LIN Shih Pao
Fang Yu LIN
Hung-Chih PENG
Chin Chih YANG

Curator:
Luchia Meihua LEE

Exhibition Opening Reception
Date: February 21, 2008
Time: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Location: Taipei Cultural Center

Panel Discussion
Date: February 21, 2008
Time: 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Location: Taipei Cultural Center
Moderated by: Robert E. Harrist, Professor of Chinese Art History, Columbia University
Please RSVP by Thursday February 14, 2008 to outsidein\_weai@hotmail.com with your contact information.