▲Music shows run from 9:45pm to 12:30am
▲Entrance fee (including two drinks) ranges from NT$600 to NT$850, depending on the performer
Franz and Friends (城市舞台藝文沙龍), an upscale restaurant and performance space in Taipei’s East District, hosts music shows every night. Weekly highlights include Denise Juan (阮丹青), a former pop singer turned piano teacher and television presenter, and her band Sunshine Costa. They play tonight. Tomorrow it’s Buona Sera, a group featuring soprano Chang Hsiao-ni (張曉倪).
▲25, Bade Rd Sec 3, Taipei City (台北市八德路三段25號B1). Call (02) 2579-0558 for reservations, or visit
▲www.franzandfriends.com.tw
for more information
▲Minimum charge of NT$300 on Fridays and Saturdays, on other nights there’s a one-drink minimum
Exhibitions
More than 200 jade objects dating from as far back as the Ming Dynasty are displayed in The Shiny Gem: A Jade Exhibition of Jay Arts’ Collection (光氣琳琅 — 久藝雅齋玉器展). The exhibit provides a solid overview of the various delicately carved motifs — including human figures, flowers and animals, as well as auspicious words and phrases — revealing how jade was intertwined with daily life.
▲National Museum of History (國立歷史博物館), 49 Nanhai Rd, Taipei City (台北市南海路49號). Open Tuesdays through Sundays from 10am to 6pm. Tel: (02) 2361-0270
▲Until Aug. 9
The Collected Dialogues (對話錄) is a solo exhibit by Taiwanese photographer Chang Li-hao (張禮豪). Chang’s haunting black-and-white images document the architecture and public spaces of contemporary society.
▲VT Art Salon (非常廟藝文空間), B1, 47 Yitong St, Taipei City (台北市伊通街47號地B1). Open Tuesdays to Thursdays from 2pm to 11pm and Fridays and Saturdays from 2pm to 1am. Tel: (02) 2516-1060
▲Until Aug. 15
Heart — In Between — Being and Transformation (心．之間-存在與變化) is a solo exhibit by Taiwanese artist Jun T. Lai (賴純純). Lai installed several dozen colorful plastic hearts in rows along the exhibition space as a means of expressing the ability of the individual to change.
▲Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei (MOCA, Taipei), 39 Changan W Rd, Taipei City (台北市長安西路39號). Open Tuesdays to Sundays from 10am to 6pm. Tel: (02) 2552-3721
▲Until Aug. 30
Seventy-one oil paintings and 16 pastels and sketches make up The Rhythms of Forms and Colors (形色音韻), a retrospective exhibit of Chen Yin-huei’s (陳銀輝) art. Divided into four sections, the exhibit surveys Chen’s entire career, from representational works based on direct observation to more conceptual works following the modernist experiments of Surrealism, Expressionism and Fauvism.
▲Taipei Fine Arts Museum (TFAM), 181, Zhongshan N Rd Sec 3, Taipei City (台北市中山北路三段181號). Open Tuesdays to Sundays from 9:30am to 5:30pm, open until 8:30pm on Saturdays. Tel: (02) 2595-7656
▲Until Sept. 27
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