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Red scars and blue dust. Deodorant-free installation art.
The world’s landfills have been dusted with the discarded union jacks that briefly saluted the Queen of England’s jubilee last fortnight....
cnualart
Jun 25, 20123 min read


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


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


The skin of art spaces
Brazilian artist Ernesto Neto has exposed the art viscera inside the Hayward gallery, London. I won’t digress much talking about the...
cnualart
Jul 19, 20101 min read


I gave my heartbeat to an artist…
Cross Hyde Park facing East, get to the Serpentine Gallery, see no red (as you arrive from the West). Encounter a make-shift white box....
cnualart
Jul 15, 20102 min read
Made In – Oil without paint
[singlepic id=199 w=320 h=240 float=left]Excited about being in Birmingham on a nice sunny day, I dashed to Ikon gallery first, and dove...
cnualart
Jun 26, 20102 min read
The Creative Compass
Strolling up to the Serpentine Gallery on a fine London morning I happened upon a wonderful little exhibition in the Royal Geographical...
cnualart
May 24, 20102 min read
Eco art
Currently, Madrid’s Casa de America presents a group exhibition of Spanish and Latin American artists, ‘Mientras sea posible’. The brief...
cnualart
Apr 13, 20103 min read


Artbin
[singlepic id=35 w=320 h=240 float=left]But rules about taking photos are becoming stranger. During the Anish Kapoor exhibition, the...
cnualart
Mar 13, 20103 min read


How to make art with toxic waste: Richard Wilson’s 20:50
here. The first time round, I saw it first in 1993, this artwork blew my young mind. The disused factory in St John’s Wood, as I recall...
cnualart
Feb 26, 20102 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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