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THE MADWOMAN, a poem by Hoang Hung
THE MADWOMAN Carrying a broken stick on her head she walks and sings Evening comes gradually at the end of the street She walks and...
cnualart
Jan 25, 20161 min read


Saigon’s artworld – sketches in ‘Masque & Spectacle’
The July 2015 issue of literary and arts journal Masque and Spectacle is devoted to Vietnam, and features a few of my sketches done...
cnualart
Jun 6, 20151 min read


25 Years of Freedom – A Vietnamese Gallery’s Vision
Art Radar on 1 August 2014. From the postwar to Vietnam’s economic boom, Tu Do Gallery has been running successfully for a quarter of a...
cnualart
Aug 11, 20141 min read


The Hong Kong – Vietnam art connection
Half of the Vietnamese alive today weren’t born when all this started For most of the 20th century, no country outside of Vietnam (and a...
cnualart
Jul 12, 20145 min read


Saigon’s Galerie Quynh: a decade of get up and go
A street sweeper pauses his broom in the middle of the night. From the shadows of the empty asphalt, he looks at two people sleeping in a...
cnualart
Jun 6, 20146 min read


How is lacquer painting evolving in the 21st century?
Word Vietnam magazine, April 2014, p.166. “MEMORIES”, lacquer exhibition by 5 artists, Tu Do gallery, 53 Ho Tung Mau, D1, HCMC, Vietnam....
cnualart
Apr 5, 20141 min read
The internet is 25 years old
Although we think of the internet as the biggest repository of knowledge, it is barely a young adult. I remember exploring this strange...
cnualart
Mar 11, 20141 min read


We Are Asia – Art Stage Singapore 2014
This article was cross-posted on the Hanoi Grapevine. Art Stage attempted to bridge the gap between high-brow collectors and the general...
cnualart
Feb 5, 20144 min read


Vietnam’s 2013 art scene ends with a bang: Tiffany Chung
This article was published in Word Vietnam magazine, January 2014, p.16. In Vietnam, it is rare to see exhibitions of the most prominent...
cnualart
Jan 7, 20143 min read


Artist Himiko Nguyen comes back from the dark.
This article was published in Word Vietnam magazine, December 2013, pp. 98-99. [ezcol_2fifth] [/ezcol_2fifth] [ezcol_3fifth_end] ‘What...
cnualart
Dec 10, 20135 min read


Ha-ha! A graffiti artist’s magical trip to Saigon
This article was published in Word Vietnam magazine, December 2013, p.16. [ezcol_1half] How do you explain your job to people? In a...
cnualart
Dec 10, 20132 min read


Taipei Art Photo: the newest art fair model
Taiwan, a little island that is the third richest country in Asia, last week hosted its first art photography fair in the spacious Expo...
cnualart
Sep 28, 20132 min read


10 things you should know about Vietnamese Art
This article was published in Word Vietnam magazine, September 2013, pp. 76-79. [ezcol_1half] 1 Ceramics More recently, international art...
cnualart
Sep 7, 20137 min read


El silencio en el armario
Detrás de los abrigos largos, donde más oscuro está, hay un cuadro que no ha visto la luz, casi, casi, desde que lo pinté, en 1998. El...
cnualart
Aug 24, 20131 min read


How to save a village and age more rapidly
This exhibition review was published in the August 2013 issue of Word Vietnam magazine. Artist Le Hien Minh’s use of Vietnamese dó paper...
cnualart
Aug 7, 20132 min read


Cambodia’s hand painted signs in a book
My friends from Very Ngon Homewares were on a recent business trip to Cambodia, and kindly brought me back a book I’d wanted for a while,...
cnualart
Jul 11, 20131 min read


Art trends at Hong Kong Art Basel 2013
After 5 years of rapid growth the Hong Kong Art Fair this year was rebranded Hong Kong Art Basel. The space is the same, but the price of...
cnualart
Jun 4, 20132 min read
Choe, Vietnam’s most loved truth teller
The septuagenarian couple that runs Tu Do gallery, the first commercial art gallery in South Vietnam, are still breaking ground in the...
cnualart
May 6, 20134 min read
Drawing I’m working on: The Ghost of Cho Van Thanh
I make slow art because I like to explore each idea with lots of documentation and different materials. But this type of labourious...
cnualart
Apr 1, 20131 min read
Digger Party!
These diggers in Saigon look like they are all fresh and ready for a group bash. They are literally going to be ‘tearing down the house’!...
cnualart
Mar 4, 20131 min read
THE MADWOMAN, a poem by Hoang Hung
THE MADWOMAN Carrying a broken stick on her head she walks and sings Evening comes gradually at the end of the street She walks and...
cnualart
Jan 25, 20161 min read


Saigon’s artworld – sketches in ‘Masque & Spectacle’
The July 2015 issue of literary and arts journal Masque and Spectacle is devoted to Vietnam, and features a few of my sketches done...
cnualart
Jun 6, 20151 min read
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