Two wicker chairs, two people: Hockney's lovers come to Taichung

In Hockney's portrait, one man looks out of the painting; the other turns towards him. They have separate wicker chairs, blue shutters behind them and a table full of books and fruit in front. There is plenty of room between the chairs. I keep coming back to the sideways look.

The men are writer Christopher Isherwood and his partner, artist Don Bachardy. Their 1968 portrait will be shown publicly in Taiwan for the first time in The Scorpion and the Frog: Masterworks from the YAGEO Foundation Collection. Curator Philip Larratt-Smith also puts Francis Bacon's Study for a Pope VI beside Tintoretto's portrait of Cardinal Marcantonio Da Mula, four centuries apart.

Plan a slow visit to galleries D and E, then a walk in Central Park next door. The museum is in Xitun, at the Green Museumbrary; give the cross-city journey time rather than treating it as a stop beside Taichung TRA Station.