* Taipei Fine Arts Museum (台北市立美術館), 181 Zhongshan N Rd Sec 3, Taipei
(台北市中山北路三段181號).
* Open Tuesday to Sunday from 9:30am to 5:30pm.
* Call (02) 2595-7656
* Until August 5
Ballet Premier (芭蕾首演). The exhibition features Guan Ze-ju's (關則駒) series of paintings in which exhibit the artistic influences of scholasticism and symbolism while elements of impressionism and surrealism are also apparent. Techniques and skills are not the end. Guan's aim is the expression of the images in his mind.
* Imavision Gallery (晴山藝術中心), 13F, 224 Zhongxiao E Rd Sec 4, Taipei (台北市忠孝東路四段224號13樓).
* Open Tuesday to Sunday from 11am to 6:30pm.
* Call (02) 2773-5155
* Until Wednesday
Fashion Accidentally (流行的意外). Featuring innovative clothing items by 15 artists from 11 countries, the exhibition invites viewers to see how contemporary artists use clothing as an interface to express their reflection on the issues of fashion as a social and cultural subject in the context of globalization. Issues like body politics, racism, class struggle, self-identity, cultural colonialism, and labor exploitation and environmental crises in the so called post-globalization era are all played out in the show.
* Museum of Contemporary Art (台北當代藝術館), 39 Changan W Rd, Taipei
(台北市長安西路39號).
* Open Tuesday to Sunday from 10am to 6pm
* Call (02) 2552-3721
* From tomorrow through July 22
Taiwan Contemporary Art in Wonderland (綠野仙蹤 -- 台灣當代藝術的奇想世界).
Featuring works by 15 Taiwanese contemporary artists who turn to the hollowness and cold irony of the material age to bring about a personal "re-blossoming," the exhibition aims to contribute to the genealogy of Taiwanese contemporary art and invites viewers to enter the artists' dream-like, virtual worlds and commune with their private emotions and thoughts from the dim recesses of their minds.
* National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts in Taichung (國立台灣美術館), 2 Wuchuan W Rd Sec 1, Taichung (台中市五權西路一段2號).
* Open Tueseday to Sunday from 9am to 5pm.
* Call (04) 2372-3552
* Until Aug. 5
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