Huang notes that the Taipei Arts Festival was born in 1998, during Luo Wenjia ’ s tenure as head of the Taipei City Department of Information. Luo ’ s aim was to integrate the extant theater, music, and traditional-arts festivals into a larger arts festival with a distinctively Taipei flavor. The government then commissioned private organizations to organize the festival.
黃蘭貴指出，首屆台北藝術節是 1998 年由羅文嘉在北市新聞處任內催生，當時希望整合既有的戲劇季、音樂季、傳統藝術季，打造一個擁有鮮明台北特色的藝術節，並由政府委託民間單位主導執行。