■No entrance fee
Every Wednesday night at the Cosmopolitan Grill there’s a blues open mic, held by the Blues Society on Taiwan and hosted by Torch Pratt. All are welcome to bring their instruments and sit in on guitar, bass, or drums.
■1F, 218 Changchun Rd, Taipei City (台北市長春路218號1樓). Call (02) 2508-0304 or visit www.cosmo.com.tw for more information
■8pm to 11pm every Wednesday
■Free admission
Exhibition
Look Out! Korean Art Contemporary (Look Out!韓國當代新秀展). The exhibition features works by four South Korean contemporary artists. While Park Sung Tae contemplates the thesis of life and death through his sculptures/installations, Lee Jung Hee, Yoon Young Hye and Im Ju Ri dwell on the world through their feminine gazes.
■Mot Arts, 3F, 22 Fuxing S Rd Sec 1, Taipei City (台北市復興南路一段22號3樓). Open Mondays through Sundays from 11am to 9pm. Call (02) 2751-8088 for more information
■Until Sept. 8
Good Morning, Mr Click — Solo Exhibition by Lai Chiu-chen (早安克立克先生 — 賴九岑個展). The artist, Lai, once said, “when you put modern paintings and comics and animations together, the former will look like a joke.” Lai’s works are where the fine art and the anime worlds meet and wed, and hybrids are born out of imitation, copying and re-editing.
■Main Trend Gallery (大趨勢畫廊), 209-1, Chengde Rd Sec 3, Taipei City (台北市承德路三段209-1號). Open Tuesdays through Saturdays from 11am to 7pm. Call (02) 2587-3412 for more information
■From tomorrow through Sept. 20
Light Spa — Feeling the Temperature — At Paper Space (光的Spa — 手感溫度 — At Paper Space). The participating artists bring the element of paper into the green lifestyle by jointly designing a space for earth-friendly living.
■Suho Memorial Paper Museum (樹火紀念紙博物館), 68, Changan E Rd Sec 2, Taipei City (台北市長安東路二段68號). Open Mondays through Saturdays from 9:30am to 4:30pm. Call (02) 2507-5539 for more information
■Until Aug. 30
Chihoi’s Solo Exhibition (智海個展). The exhibition features illustration works, comics, paintings and sketches by the young artist from Hong Kong. It should be appreciated as a display of personal whimsy.
■Have a Booday Shop, 18-1, Ln 25, Nanjing W Rd, Taipei City (台北市南京西路25巷18-1號). Open Mondays through Sundays from 12pm to 9pm. Call (02) 2552-5552 X 11 for more information
■Until August 31
Indelibly Marked: Woodblock Printing in Taiwan 1945 - 2005 (世紀刻痕 — 台灣木版畫展). Featuring 90 works of woodblock printing by local artists, the exhibition aims to examine the development of Taiwan’s woodblock printing over the past 60 years. The works on display are divided into seven themes that include humanitarian concerns and social criticism and the growth of abstract styles and contemporary issues.
■National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts in Taichung (國立台灣美術館), 2 Wuchuan W Rd Sec 1, Taichung City (台中市五權西路一段2號). Open Tuesdays through Sundays from 9am to 5pm. Call (04) 2372-3552 for more information
■Until Oct. 12
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