Program was delighted to have the president of the International Association of art critics. Dr murray the box only to be our special guest to talk about the state of the International Community of art critics will come to the program mart. Thank you raymond for inviting me its a great pleasure to be here was the place is ours to have the key on the program today then lets talk about the International Association of art critics and the uae elected its president thanking october of two thousand and eleven. He told was a little bit about the association what its function is to walk on activities to do. Cause guess so will we go back to the to the late nineteen forties how association was established by the unesco up to the second word for it and we owe one of the end she owes established on. By that organization up to promote state of independent culture and arts international. So since then i mean it was so originated as their relatively small but Important Association and it has grown to sixty three National Chapters we have sixty three countries and India Association and we have about four thousand five hundred members said they were all quite so its done it is nice to get his sizable with it so i think its its soo wonderful Association International kind of gathering of critics that done to promote some art criticism but also speaks about contemporary art speaks about being in the country in general. And i must say before we go even for their holiday like that i am to be keying taipei and taiwan what happened to have your key. And though by the way what kinds of activities she do with the association. For example do you have a yearly assembly off all the men dish that yes we are we here we have time. We have some programs which have pretty much stable since variable rate or intents of the Association One of them use our way out annual congress in which we organize up in Different Countries each year and so on this unit was seen in slovakia on. Up next here we are coming to south korea s im very happy that we will be present in asia. And then we we already have several congress is planned to have the time so the following year we are going to sweden. And then well go to school flew to cuba so up so each year we get together are we. Discuss different aspects of five criticism we got there critics from around the world and time. Its a very important event for us because stuff. As critics in Different Countries in the world we dont have that much opportunities to see each other and rulers and to be to get there so i think that allows us not the only two to discuss stuff. But this is on a global scale but also allows us to establish contacts then and catch up with that lead to two years with what we are doing individually in Different Countries. Then we also organize stuff. Different events so we organize this policy i would organize workshops and so on. Sos so we are trying to do as much as possible onto it the associate shes based in new york. As for your pics now. Now i embrace the new italian eighty s the station is based in paris our way out with offices in paris the president s come from Different Countries still up im based in the United States. It was born in poland but come to us citizens so its out of the third president from from the us to cool and we had to Team President seen it so far so good to fifteen coming to sixteen credits and the end of march. You know a lot of people we see what exactly is an art critic you know i mean you can think of so many diff is their weakness in the war on the far right has a good critique on millstone of going on tv he said and you can yell paintings sculpture and the other states and the how do you categorize all these stiff in the areas of the art is sweet we are critics art critics meaning we we specialize in the visual arts so we have not been critics when the theater critic swim on top. Music critic so we knew we only visual arts critic although the store to go up and most of the they specialize in contemporary art. So off you know people who write about that renaissance arent all borrow current are usually considered art historians more than art critics though so in some way we are present all fall of the arts you know we deal whats happening now. We tried to kind of reports to a Live Audience is to know whats happening at the moment so we can write reviews about borrow car and go about it traditional chinese art but the idea is that we report on today so it will be like a program you know when you tried to kind of fall. Inform your neo knew you were just about whats happening in the world nowadays. Okay and that given the fact that you know its pretty much on the official aspect of the heart and go home get me when people get together at you and your congress to bohol do they relate to each other out to the disgust because hell still within the realm of visual art history is still a lot of different categories yes no and then the do people need to. But i think one of the things which we tried to do is to focus on the house as professionals go up in some way we devote a lot of time to discussing our crib is this mistake kind of living practice and as you know. And any kind of journal is for it. This is in the gong different transformation so it sits there is no ones who arent quit this is for every hello we are just to be the changing landscape the media landscape in the wake of news papers deal with our crew this has been so long so theres a very important part of of activity trying to basically discussing among professionals from Different Countries about how we as we represent our profession the other think we also talked about contemporary art or art in general you know kind of critical aspects of foreign fields of fecal also practical. Im trying to involve more in all more artistic noah conferences so we can of coke or rather a close here with that with artist i think the criticism does not exist without the art facility on tuesday the twenty two where to get there and i think sometimes those relationships im not the strongest we would like them to be. But do you have people claimed both sites coakley bills will send you the artists he also being art critic yes yes this is theres a long tradition actually off off off of the critics were also practitioner. Things are the president the current president to fight the usa i was present to fight the usa before i became president of the National Association the current president christopher french hes an artist and critic school already. I will extend how one has seen a member of the International Association the snow since two thousand for right and then the you know under the name of the you know i think though when the icon taiwan eye and then the wheels will cut the World Congress here in town one being the old school and college this fall the collision. Then what would those experiences like at the time i dont think you are present they get. Yes i was the president and i was in really well with the hike on the bungle on the two National Scale i was already in new york. So i can use here for the no no iii and iv drip. But on the other hand side i think that means that we can have more congress is chio more activities so close yes i think from my cody sacred it was a very Successful Congress people were delighted to be here and the you know i mean i hope there will be another opportunity for us to come back so its really looking forward to that but this is no scold you for your first trip to tumble. Its my first trip to ohio on the line and over the course of the last few days. Why have you seen how one one two an impression of the Art Community here in town. Yes this is my eighth day of tv but it seems like ive been here or there for a month that hes you know who we have been very intense program very Interesting Program we would be getting tight paid and we went to one chong and then we went scooped up until they die and die in an anti jong so basically we make the whole tour of the items then. Weve seen a lot of people from the yet some of the officials but goes the Museum Directors arent fisk youre a tourist and so i have to say im very impressed by the body the dvd the kind of the intensity of the of the art scene here at and the interests of facts to offer a figure is in the in between are still high. I never expected that kind of reception and im really really delighted to know the way on being kind of greasy fear could and will extend its kind on the other hand is not yet a member of team tennis association. I was supposed to eventually time that can become a member right and then the youngest and that you know since two thousand eight years this being the yearling improvement of relations speech by china and taiwan hit a deer is already a lot of exchanges and this is the contact between the Artistic Community stumbles sites by reducing the costly new feature that the war the more you know intense exchanges between the two sides when both of members of the International Association of the art critics. Well i hope so. As i mentioned we hit sixty three National Chapters around the world that i think we on north perth he can do well to represent the teenager. I think we have still room for improvement. We have a section here we have a section in hong kong we have the sixth inning. In the south korea and japan. In pakistan then the good dish but i think there is more a wee we dont have a section in china we dont have the section in india. We welcome the proposed known highly idea is that this is an association cannot not International Association and should include every book ever but the street in the same way because there is no set of difference as i mentioned it several times between the us section which is the biggest victim and its a bit but the stunning section which has only seven member. I mean it in now i kind of perspective everybodys kind of equal. So we want to get more members because i think the more members we have been more of we can share the experience and also kind of help each other cities do so. So i think oh its a gradual process. You know its that it doesnt come from moscow in the fight. Sections to be created as the sections that are the people who come and say we want to create this section and there is the process have to do it people have to adopt our way in the statutes and regulations that facility yes yes you are. We need to take the first break on the program will be right back. I did. Is. Says. Check eye. Welcome back to the second part of todays world and feel that i won all but on the hosts were equal what well continue our conversation without the marae bartlett whos the president off the uks National Association of art critics. Mari who was talking that this issue first visit to taiwan. He gave this a preliminary impressions of flow when you have seen on the island. Specially with reference to the Art Community here. Kabul the overall impression regarding the people. Olive defined in the city easton know some of the corporations or institutions they had visited it once your overall impression. But i was sick she asked this morning friday by a journal this problem of taipei times still in doubt so what does the movie most of the memorable aspect of play visit them this gives a nice its one of the definite been number one says be the warmest of people here in our day. The kind of the warmth that i have received is it. Its incredible mom very very you know im very grateful to two to two in ot with the above info being such welcoming and so so thats definitely something very special and and and and in some way. Note the typical in on you know sometimes people create more assistance he added the debate but the distance almost doesnt exist in this very refreshing and so thats an it goes from the mill complex with students who of very open and eager to discuss things but it goes to the high attendance of members so they have a man called politicians and so on so its its something which exists in the lake rose the society its not just in the upper level cia itself on the phone on Different Levels those of its this remarkable way. I cannot stress how oh how remarkably fits in. Of the other the steaks i have tried tried to see as much as possible interim so for the kind of institutions to have the kind of artistic come in of institutions so weve been doing about the visits to museums then stop. The difference if the sand and then its also an incredible by a few experiences because from the Palace Museum and will you know which this. I guess hell National Museum where you could be. Incredible treasures and i was i was in Office Surprise that an answer to. Of the light hits it to find out that you know that the version off of a few more non these eyes is a beautiful jade to the beach and so is it says its a beautiful piece and its kind of mesmerizing go. Samoa have to one of these us in my head you know it is wonderful with the baby on top of that love the old one from europe and democracy itself. So that was a remarkable the collection is spectacular its kind of bought into the whats what else can one say its its its just the treasures so then we went to museums that presents contemporary art and digital arent all kinds of posts to humanistic apart and so on. Thats very interesting to see how i wound it contributes to the International Scene and what kind of experience you can get here in use in your country. We went to the team a museum in. Im in sweden is still under construction but its almost getting ready for the innovation i guess next year. That said thats a very very interesting experience in itself and on visits to it as you know its a its a collection devoted to western art through which urine. I guess its unique in this part of the world and will use was to be able to see ghosts works you know here without having to travel to paris so long to know me know or they know. Will new york its its its its spectacular and im not very much the court to seeing the museum when it opens them our life has such a variety of things in stock on the most votes that none of them. And then in this incredible collection of violins which this i mean its a world class to be on for a prestigious unique and no other collection like this so i must say that out. You know im kind of overwhelmed by it beats the moon night that comes from these kind of experiences and then dinner and then wed visit to some studio so i got the chance to see how what people are doing in austria in a more kind of fun. Individualistic way you know in their studios and the us. And then the we is it that there are a musician a hottie musician they know who was cited for us so its a guy i mean its its its sick call spectrum of continuous descent. And whats wonderful i think what you know you are running away insists is very special because the us would affect change between that this part of the world and that the western way of valuing address those silly no way it says youtube you can see this kind of top two sides of the experience would have enough of a scientist and a very very unique local phone book well whatever where not much just for the region. And then you have posts are very complex and very interesting set of multi Ethnic Society and you know Multicultural Society in which i think its email for people who come from abroad. With pseudo without didnt know each of the aisle on me. We can assume that there is no one cut to one people you know it yet sit this one comes to on people but the with many colors. And thats what constitutes also a bang great aspect of the society of writing that israel has the spectrum off all dairy costs yes yes yes yes and in no way you might get calm ones culture like me you know we just discussed. We of course have the chinese call to harriet its great that the court rightly yours to look at taiwans history over the years who plead guilty or in cornelius were illegal colonize but the touch and thereafter by the japanese thai and its really you see some real treats. Its right up the cupertino colonial years from both dutch and also come to the beach and and and beans that they need help global ice age. And then you also see a lot of the american eel european influences here. And then that given the fact that you have such a meal rich Cocoa Foundation in taiwan. Ive seen tons of art and artistic development. There has certainly is a very good inexpensive meal he sent it right now in houston. You know to have more more is up to the arts and the artistic developments taking place in taiwan when to release into the sewer so so the lesson and thats you know i i came here at the invitation of professor ken gets that from a hike on friday was the president if i cut taiwan to whom im very grateful flow for this opportunity to speak but um you know id given to him. I kind of sense that here the weekends to establish a relationship which will be beneficial to both side and as i keep repeating this week. I didnt come here with the unopened bag of offerings to know if i came here to learn and also through to kind of exchange experience and i think that is on the way how we connect to collaborate. Its not certified. In all colonizing another stays on the other kind of coming up on the basis that we have to speak to each other and learn from each other so in that respect i think its this that phenomenal place for us to learn about you know the wii. The meaning of cut to the meaning of art Center Including contemporary art you know very much and he has been talk in the building plastics industry in the