Taipei, March 27 (CNA) Japanese artist Yoshitomo Nara will arrive in Taiwan on Wednesday to begin a 19-day residency at an arts center in the southern port city of Kaohsiung.
Kaohsiung, Dec. 26 (CNA) Japanese ceramics artist Satoshi Kino will be taking legal action against Taiwanese sculptor Tsai Wen-hsyang (蔡文祥) for plagiarizing one of his artworks, members of Kino's family told CNA on Monday.
People yesterday flock to the Kaohsiung Exhibition Center in the city’s Cianjhen District on the final day of the Creative Expo Taiwan. This year’s event, themed “Resonance Island,” was the first edition of the annual expo held outside Taipei. Featuring 500 domestic and foreign creative brands and intellectual property licensees, the 10-day expo attracted more than 500,000 visitors, the Kaohsiung Bureau of Cultural Affairs said.
The government has no plan to cancel the Taiwan Lantern Festival this year, despite an increase in the number of locally transmitted COVID-19 cases, the Tourism Bureau said yesterday.
The festival is to be held in Kaohsiung from Feb. 15 to 28.
Last year, the government canceled the nation’s flagship tourism event, which was to be held in Hsinchu City, due to a cluster infection at the Ministry of Health and Welfare’s Taoyuan Hospital.
“This year’s Taiwan Lantern Festival will proceed as scheduled,” Minister of Transportation and Communications Wang Kwo-tsai (王國材) told reporters at the ministry’s new year news conference.
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