today i went to the taipei fine arts museum and took in some of their current shows: the multiform nineties: - taiwan's art branches out, matisse/picasso discovery workshop, and the lyricism of form geometric abstraction. of these i found the multiform nineties to be the most interesting. a lot of geometic art i tend to get bored with, though there were some pieces i quite liked. the matisse/picasso exhibit is really designed to introduce children to art. the pieces they had were mainly from the matisse book jazz, and some ceramics that picasso and matisse had done. the nineties exhibit was all contemporary work, some of which i had seen before at various exhibits. some of it was even a bit on the creepy side which of course i dug.

after visiting the museum i headed to taipei story house which is conveniently located next to the museum. they are having an exhibit called childhood of yesterday - toy exhibition. it's a small exhibit, but still nice to see old toys. especially interesting were old masks of gatchaman, popeye and oliver hardy(as in laurel and hardy) which were not curved to fit your face, but just flat pieces of paper with their faces printed on them.