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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
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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
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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
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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
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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...
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Aug 7, 20132 min read
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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
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When forged paintings could do a better job
I’ve loved all my art history lecturers. All of them were brilliant speakers. It is not clear if it was their passion for the subject or...
cnualart
May 31, 20122 min read
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Ironies of ‘the female condition’
Below are my digital drawings currently on show in Cúnhouse Lounge. I like seeing and capturing funny anecdotes. The poem and...
cnualart
Mar 8, 20121 min read
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3D sketchbook: an archive of the artist’s inspiration
Zerostation is a Saigon-based arts organisation that aims to connect Vietnamese and international art practitioners. It regularly holds...
cnualart
Feb 25, 20122 min read
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DomestiCity: visual research on domestic activities in dense urban areas
This photo essay was featured on Urban Asia Week, on ThisBigCity, a sustainable urbanism project. I live in Ho Chi Minh City, the largest...
cnualart
Oct 31, 20113 min read
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The wax sculptures by La Huy
Wonderful surprise to visit HCMC’s Cactus gallery on the closing day of this exhibition, and to find that it is their best exhibition to...
cnualart
Oct 22, 20111 min read
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Why does Vietnam not do well in the visual arts? (part 2)
Read part 1 here My personal impression is that Vietnam, a dynamic nation with a wide multicultural heritage, currently shows little...
cnualart
Oct 16, 20115 min read
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Vietnamese lacquer painting: materials used.
I’ve now lived in Vietnam for over a year! The best thing is that I started taking lessons to learn the traditional lacquer painting...
cnualart
Aug 18, 20111 min read
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Three weekend trilogy – art from the beach
[singlepic id=414 w=320 h=240 float=left]Maintaining an art practice alongside a regular job is all the harder if you live in an exciting...
cnualart
Jun 29, 20112 min read
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Hong Kong Art Fair 2011
After a year of getting to know the fairly limited Vietnamese art scene, I jumped across the water to expand my horizons. Two days...
cnualart
May 30, 20111 min read
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Public Space in the Singapore Art Biennale 2011
This article was originally written for Sustainable Urbanism site ThisBigCity.net [ezcol_1half] [/ezcol_1half] [ezcol_1half_end] For the...
cnualart
Apr 22, 20114 min read
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Kenji Yoshida
The October Gallery in Bloomsbury has just opened a small and lovely exhibition of Kenji Yoshida’s paintings. Below is my favourite:...
cnualart
Apr 17, 20103 min read
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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
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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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