Obsession and repetition on a theme

I used to admire artists coming back to the same theme repeatedly (-- whether the theme is self-portraits or apples or highways...). It seems that the artist gets very close to the core of artistic spirit through repetition and obsession on a theme.

However, a sour reason for the repetition could be that the art market likes the theme and the artist produces more to meet the demand.

讀懂了

"如果一本二十万字的书，可以用一千字说出来，那就表示读懂了。" -- 詹宏志說的

電影：一個永恆輕鬆的命題

沒有俊男美女的電影，是極端困難的。

the core question: degree of extent 問題都是程度的問題

許多事情、政策的成敗，許多都出在程度的問題。愛恨情仇發展之不可收拾，也多是程度上出了差錯。

立法或政策立意良好，但是在質或是量上做得太多或是太少，都會導致失敗。愛或是恨一個人太多，因此把對方愛死或是恨死了，也會天下大亂的。

關於故宮文物出訪美國

我所查得的資料顯示，台北的故宮文物從冷戰時期第一次出訪美國以來，在美國的展覽都是單向的。也就是說，美國博物館的文物沒有「回訪」過台灣。但是，故宮文物借展至法國、奧地利等，都屬於交換展覽的性質。

故宮在台北的成立，也是冷戰時期美國在台的建設之一。

文化行銷：原住民舞蹈服飾

如果我們要以文化活動行銷台灣，那麼原住民舞團所穿著的粗糙服飾是絕對行不通的。

我所看到的兩次原住民舞蹈，一次是2004年的漢城，一次是在2010年的台博館館前廣場。記得舞者所穿戴的服飾與頭飾，多是塑膠布料，僅能把眼鏡摘下或是不細看，才不難過。我想，這換作日本和韓國，一定不是這樣吧?

Chinese exceptionalism and development studies

China defies most of the general rules and principles in development, including cultural development. Cultural exceptionalism was probably firstly brought about by the French government against free trade.

When "cultural exceptionalism" and "Chinese exceptionalism" come together, how do we contextualise the cultural development in China then?

批判批判

可能是因為台灣有很長的威權統治戒嚴這個不行那個不行的歷史，批判是個非常好用的動詞和形容詞。批判表示有想法，任何人用上批判兩字，立刻加分。可是：如果事情尚且渾沌不清（而這恐怕發生在不少領域），就針對這些渾沌努力批判，那麼這樣有什麼特別的意義嗎（除去展現學術武功高強之外）？

Museums and Art Therapy

Some practitioners introduced two examples of art therapy workshops for new immigrant women held in two museums respectively.  One workshop was related to one of the (art) museum's current exhibitions; the other was not.

-- A practitioner said that even if the workshop helped only one person, that is worthwhile.
-- However, if you are the government agency that gives the money to the programmes (and these programmes do not come cheap), how would you evaluate the effectiveness of the kind of programmes that only benefit one person (though significantly)?