On todays 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. Think youre a man 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 banking october of two thousand and eleven. He told was a little bit about the association what its function so well planned activities to do cause guess. So will we go back to the late nineteen forties. How association was established by 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 through 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 the world while so its done it. It is nice to get his sizable with it so i think its its soo wonderful Association International kind of gathering of critics of the time 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 to die and to bpa in taipei taiwan. What happened to have the key then go on the way what kinds of activities t do what the association. For example t have a yearly assembly off all the membership. Yes we are we knew we had time. We have some programs which have pretty much stable since they will reach origins 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. Of next year 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 off of criticism we got there critics from around the world and calm. Its a very important event for us because stuff. As the dixie in Different Countries in the world we dont have that much opportunities to see each other an announcement to be to get there so i think that allows us not the only two to discuss stuff. This is on a global scale but also allows us to establish contacts then and catch up with that would boost yesterday with what we are doing individually in Different Countries that then the wheels to 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 but the associate shes based in new york. This way your face now. Now i embrace the new italian the association is based in paris our way out with offices in paris the president s come from Different Countries so im based in the United States it was born in poland but come to us citizens so its out of the third president s from from the us to it 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 world the far right know they can critique on millstone of crying on tv he said you can yell paintings sculpture and the other states and the how do you categorize all these different areas of the art is sweet we are critics art critics meaning we eat 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 of 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 so borrow current are usually considered art historians more than art critics though so we use our way we are to be the president 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 your annual congress in bohol do they relate to each other out to the disgust because hell still within the realm of visual art. Yes hes still a lot of different categories yes no and then the do people eat. 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 what could this business that 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 states there is no ones who fought for this is for ever and now we are just to be the changing landscape the media landscape in the wake of news papers deal with art critics 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 represent our profession the other think we also talked about contemporary art or art in general you know kind of critical aspect so far its because of fecal also practical. Im trying to involve more in all more artistic noah conferences so we can collaborate closer with that with all this i think of criticism doesnt exist without his knowledge of the state that we need to Work Together 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 gets the assistants theres a long tradition actually off off off of god. Critics were also practitioner and things are to stand up. Thanks to the president the current president to fight the usa i was president the fight the usa before i became president of the National Association. The current president christopher french hes an artist and critic dont think i will stand tall 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 but 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 will be in collusion. Then what would those experiences like at the time i dont think you are presently 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 so no iii and iv drip photo 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 high angle with the course of the last few days. What have you seen how one one two an impression of the Art Community here in town as 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. Weve begun in taipei then we went to. One shown in the daily rants who 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 holds the Museum Directors arent fisk youre a tourist and so i have to say im very impressed by. The buy the dvd the kind of the intensity of the of the art scene here and the interests of facts to offer the interest in the in between are still high i never expected that kind of reception and im really really liked it in on the way on being kind of free seats here could and will stand the china 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 with china and taiwan here and here is already a lot of exchanges and this is the contact between the Artistic Community stumble sites type would you think 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 are not particularly well represented in asia i think we have still room for improvement. We have a section here we have the section in hong kong we have a section and in the south korea and japan. In pakistan then the good fish but i think theres more we we dont have a section in china we dont have a section in india. We welcome the proposed ban on how we idea is that this is an association cannot not International Association and should include every book ever but the street that the same way because there is no set of difference as i mentioned it several times between the us section which is the biggest section and its a bit but the stunning section which has only seven member. I mean it in now way 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 creative is 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. Ive got nowhere in the statutes and regulations and facilities yes yes you are. We need to take the first break on the program will be right back. I am. It is. Six season steve. Check eye. Welcome back to the second part of todays world and feel that i won all but on the host were equal. What will continue our conversation without the marae bartlett whos the president off the uks National Association of art critics. Laurie who was talking that this issue first visit to taiwan then he gave this a preliminary impressions. Also 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 he said no 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. 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 and so 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 have an 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 remarkable it is in. Of the other the steaks i have id try to see as much as possible interim so what are the kind of institutions to have the kind of hard to stick them in the institution so weve been doing about the visits to museums then stop. The difference if the sand and then its also an incredible variety of experiences because from the Palace Museum and will you know which this. I guess hell National Museum where you have the incredible treasures and i was i was in Office Surprise that an answer to. Of the light that is to find out that you know that the version also 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. So now i have to one of these us in my head you know it is wonderful with the baby on top of that one of the old one from europe and democracy itself so that was a remarkable the collection is spectacular its kind of popped into the whats what else can one say its its its just the treasures so. Then we went to museums that presents contemporary art on the disco arent all kinds of posts to humanistic of barak and so on thats very interesting too to see how i wound it contributes to the International Scene then what kind of experience you can get here in use in your country. We went to the team a museum in the eye and the swede 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 going on thats it it has you know its a its a collection devoted to western art through which urine. I guess its unique in this part of the world the center piece 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 and stuffs 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 oh you know im kind of overwhelmed by the steamer night that comes from these kind of experiences and then dinner and then a week 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 week is it that there are a musician a hottie musician they know who was cited for us so its a diet mean its its its sick call spectrum of penises than. And whats wonderful i think what you know you kai winding away insists is very special because us for the picking between that this part of the world and that the western way of valuing address those silly no wade says youtube you can see this kind of top two sides of the experience would have enough of the scientist and a very very unique local phone book well whatever where not much just for the region. And then you have posts are a very 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 kutcher when 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 look at town was called to let 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 when hell do in cornelius were illegal colonize but the touch and thereafter by the japanese right and its really you see some real treats. Its right up the cupertino colonial years from both the 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 icing interests of art and artistic development. Yes this really is a very good inexpensive meal he sent it right now in houston and ella to have more more of the fiji arts and the artistic developments taking place in taiwan which you agree with stitches that are so so the lesson and thats you know i i came here at the invitation of professor tan is from a hike on taiwans president if i cut taiwan to whom im very grateful for for this opportunity to speak but um you know id get in to. 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 innovative bag off 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 so much. In all colonizing in the displays but 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. He has been talk in the building class talks. In this teenage high tech though we cannot avo