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A block-printed tiger by Tseng Hsueh-mei (曾雪梅) has won the Hsinchu County artist an excellence award and the piece is to be displayed at the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts. Tseng’s image features a “cute tiger” clinging to the trunk of a plum tree. She said yesterday that the image symbolizes the hope that the COVID-19 pandemic will pass, allowing Taiwanese industries to thrive once more. Magpies sitting on the tree’s branches and surrounding the tiger are chirping a happy song to bring to mind the Chinese idiom “xi shang mei shao” (喜上眉梢), meaning to be visibly o...

Embroidery by Taitung County’s first “national living treasure” artist Ljavaus Aluguljan is on display at the Taitung Art Museum in an exhibition that aims to bring attention to Paiwan art and culture. The show organized by the Taitung Cultural Affairs Department showcases the artist’s traditional kinavatjesan embroidery, including works depicting the 100-pace snake, or Deinagkistrodon acutus, which is venerated as an integral part of Paiwan culture. Ljavaus Aluguljan has put years of painstaking care into her work to build a record of the county’s traditional culture, the department...

The first time I traveled to Pingtung County’s Tjuvecekadan (老七佳 “Old Cijia”), I was greeted by a locked gate and a sign written in old, peeling paint forbidding entry to unescorted outsiders. Behind the gate, the road to the village disappeared around a curve. After the long drive out, not being able to even catch a glimpse of the old slate houses, let alone walk among them, was a major disappointment. What lay behind that gate remained a mystery for years, until the right contact finally helped me arrange a visit last year. After visiting the village, the locked gate

Taipei, Jan. 12 (CNA) Indigenous artist Sakuliu Pavavaljung will no longer represent Taiwan at the 59th Venice Biennale in 2022 following sexual assault allegations against him, the Taipei Fine Arts Museum, which is organizing the Taiwan Pavilion at the event, said Wednesday.

Taipei, Dec. 24 (CNA) Indigenous artist Sakuliu Pavavaljung on Friday denied a claim he sexually assaulted a teenage girl, following the description of an assault in an online story earlier this month that led many to accuse the artist of being the perpetrator and local prosecutors to launch an investigation.