{"id":3222,"date":"2009-12-13T22:49:28","date_gmt":"2009-12-14T03:49:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news\/?p=3222"},"modified":"2018-10-14T00:29:09","modified_gmt":"2018-10-13T19:29:09","slug":"artful-in-taiching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/artful-in-taiching\/","title":{"rendered":"Artful, in Taiching."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3223\" title=\"Taiching_Rodin\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/Taiching_Rodin.jpg\" alt=\"Taiching_Rodin\" width=\"437\" height=\"299\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3224\" title=\"Taiching_embrace\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/Taiching_embrace.jpg\" alt=\"Taiching_embrace\" width=\"437\" height=\"277\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3225\" title=\"Taiching_museum\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/Taiching_museum.jpg\" alt=\"Taiching_museum\" width=\"437\" height=\"293\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3226\" title=\"Taiching_sculpture\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/Taiching_sculpture.jpg\" alt=\"Taiching_sculpture\" width=\"437\" height=\"304\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3227\" title=\"Taiching_art\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/Taiching_art.jpg\" alt=\"Taiching_art\" width=\"437\" height=\"301\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3228\" title=\"Taiching_Tree\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/Taiching_Tree.jpg\" alt=\"Taiching_Tree\" width=\"437\" height=\"290\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3229\" title=\"Taiching_mask\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/Taiching_mask.jpg\" alt=\"Taiching_mask\" width=\"437\" height=\"249\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3230\" title=\"Taiching_lunch\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/Taiching_lunch.jpg\" alt=\"Taiching_lunch\" width=\"437\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Taiching, Taiwan<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve just spent a delightful and inspiring two days in Taiching (aka <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Taichung\" target=\"_blank\">Taichung<\/a>). After arriving by bullet train from Taipei yesterday, our delegation gathered at Asia University to deliver a series of lectures\u2014nice bonus, a chance to peruse the University founder\u2019s private collection of bronze sculptures (including one of 25 <em>Thinkers<\/em> by Rodin). Japanese architect <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tadao_Ando\" target=\"_blank\">Tadao Ando<\/a> has just designed an impressive bespoke museum that will house this collection in years to come.<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s highlight was a guided visit to the beautiful Taiwanese National Museum of Fine Arts, where the <em>2009 Asian Art Biennial | Viewpoints &amp; Viewing Points<\/em> was on exhibit (see photos above). After a sumptuous lunch at the Xin Yue Wu Tung (Shanghainese) restaurant it was off again by bullet train to Tainan\u2026<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em>Big thanks and a virtual hug to my personal interpreter this week, Tree (in striped dress\u2014a Taiwanese fashion design student who has just returned from three years of study in Paris). <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taiching, Taiwan I\u2019ve just spent a delightful and inspiring two days in Taiching (aka Taichung). After arriving by bullet train from Taipei yesterday, our delegation gathered at Asia University to deliver a series of lectures\u2014nice bonus, a chance to peruse the University founder\u2019s private collection of bronze sculptures (including one of 25 Thinkers by Rodin). [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,5,6,7,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3222"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3222"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16138,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3222\/revisions\/16138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}