Because it is the city's municipal museum, you can enjoy 4 to 5 exhibitions for a mere 1 US dollar (NTD30) admission fee, and each exhibition is good. Interestingly one of the exhibitions was "Trans-Cool Tokyo," which featured many of the most major contemporary artists of Japan. Indeed it is a very efficient opportunity to have a quick overview of the contemporary art scene in Japan, and you would never see such a show in Tokyo. So if you are interested in the Japanese contemporary art and happened to be in Taiwan, it is a must see. It is open until September 25, 2011.
I was more impressed by the retrospective of Read Lee, "The Struggle of Space and Sentiment." I did not know about the artist until I saw the show, but I was just fascinated by the colors and brush strokes of his abstract paintings. Many of the works looked soothing to me, having no conflict, so to say. And I believe that must have been what the artist struggled to achieve.
Lee said "In my paintings, I transform spacial concepts into natural forms." On the other hand, according to Lee, Cezanne transformed natural forms into painterly space.