Minister of Culture Cheng Li-chiun met with senior advisors of the DC-based think tank CSIS on May 22 to discuss the collaborative opportunities and future trajectory of the forthcoming Taiwan Creative Content Agency, an independent administrative corporation that will begin its operations in June.
Minister of Culture Cheng Li-chiun met with RoseLee Goldberg, director of the New York-based nonprofit interdisciplinary arts organization Performa, on May 23 to discuss collaborative opportunities and Taiwan's inclusion to the 2019 Performa Biennial this November.
Minister of Culture Cheng Li-chiun attended the opening ceremony of a New York exhibition featuring the donated collection of the late Dr. Hsu Hong-yen on May 23, noting that Dr. Hsu was not only a collector of Taiwanese art, but an aggregator of Taiwanese art history.
The Ministry of Culture and Fulbright Taiwan are now offering Fulbright grants for non-academic professionals in four areas — arts administration, policy research and development, international marketing (in art and culture), and copyright policy studies (in art and culture).
The National Human Rights Museum celebrated its first anniversary on May 17, the day when it was established in 2018 and the date when the first large-scale shipments of political victims were escorted to Green Island for "thought reformation" during Taiwan's martial-law era known as White Terror.