Sat, Aug 03, 2002 - Page 16 News List

Curious curatorship at Chi Mei

The director of the Chi Mei Museum in Taiwan doesn't want to parrot the things Taiwanese were once taught about the supremacy of Chinese culture, but that doesn't explain the stuffed polar bears

By Max Woodworth  /  STAFF REPORTER

Most curators at major art museums would view the Chi Mei Museum with bewilderment, but that may be its biggest strength -- it's free of the high-minded curatorial agendas that characterize most contemporary art exhibits and it has so much variety that it never gets boring. So, instead of feeling like one is going through a museum, it's more as if one is rummaging through their rich and well-travelled uncle's attic.

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