Tainan, June 24 (CNA) Opening day ticket sales for a horror exhibition at the Tainan Art Museum were suspended twice on Saturday due to the show attracting so much more visitors than expected that it caused overcrowding.
The Tainan Art Museum yesterday said that its “Asian Hell and Ghosts” exhibition is to commence as planned tomorrow, despite critics calling for it to be canceled.
The museum on Friday last week wrote on Facebook that it is to host the traveling exhibition, saying it has secured a collaboration with the presenter of the exhibit, the Paris-based Musee Du Quai Branly.
A promotional image with the post showed mannequins dressed as “hopping zombies.”
Some comments on the post were critical:
“Taiwan has more than enough superstition without this Asian hell and zombies exhibit at our vaunted Tainan Art Museum,” one said, with another
2021/02/03 02:20 Austria Office in Taipei Director Roland Rudorfer. Austria Office in Taipei Director Roland Rudorfer. (Taiwan News photo) TAIPEI (Taiwan News) Director of the Austrian Office in Taipei Roland Rudorfer recapped some of the cultural events hosted by the organization last year, in an interview with Taiwan News. Rudorfer, who became a diplomat in 1993, said the second half of 2020 was “a very busy time” despite the pandemic. As an example, he pointed to the two-day “Best of Ars Electronica” screening event in October. An “Austria Vienna Cultural month” in partnership with Tainan City Government was held in the southern Taiwan city in November, featuring five music and film events. Rudorfer said a “Vienna Coffeehouse” event, in collaboration with Julius Meinl coffee, was held early November in Taipei and featured “classical music, a live baking demonstration of Vienne