Taipei Fine Arts Museum
Geometric contemporary art museum built on a Metabolist design, opened in nineteen eighty-three.
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This guide to the Taipei Fine Arts Museum in Taipei traces a rift with Taiwanese sculptor Lee Tsai-chien, whose bold red steel piece, Finite to Infinite, vanished under a coat of gray paint one night soon after the museum opened, after a passerby glimpsed a political symbol in its shape during Taiwan's martial-law years. The museum's acting director ordered the repainting without asking the artist, and word of it spread through Taipei's small, furious art world.
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