4. Nankang Software Park's public art. With a budget of NT$72 million, you'd think the organizers could pay for larger sculptures instead of ending up with something that looks straight out of the Stonehenge scene from This is Spinal Tap.
5. Fiction, Love-Ultra New Vision in Contemporary Art was a well-attended show due to its overwhelming inclusion of cutesy kitsch. However, many works did not fit into the premise of comics and animation.
6. Let's award a couple of bian dang to the catfighting curators of this year's Taipei Biennial. Perhaps to some people, international negative attention is better than no attention at all.
7. The UNESCO group AICA's world congress recently held in Taipei and Kaohsiung showed that western arrogance is still alive and well in the post-modern art world.
8. With the exception of Yuan Goang-ming's (
9. The ping-ponging fate of the proposed Guggenheim. It would be great to have a Pritzker-prized architect-designed building in Taiwan.
10. Poor scheduling of international events. With several biennials and international conferences in Asia, coordination would allow foreign visitors to attend more than just one event.
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