Thinking out loud

Speak & Describe - the 2009 Cross-Straits Contemporary Art Show, the first large-scale contemporary art exhibition, jointly organized by art museums across the Taiwan Straits, is running at the National Art Museum of China.

Divided into three parts, namely History and Memory, Reality and Introspection, and Inner Recollections and Extension, the exhibition presents some 60 works of painting, sculpture, installation, photography and video art, created by 29 artists from across the Straits.

The exhibition, debuted in Taiwan from May 23 to June 28 and, is co-organized by the China Friendship Association of Cultural Circles, National Art Museum of China, Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts and National Taiwan Fine Arts Foundation.