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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
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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’!...
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Mar 4, 20131 min read
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Does Contemporary Vietnamese Art still have something to say? Part 1 of 3 by Laurent Colin
This essay, originally written in French by Laurent Colin, was first published in Vietnamese on the art discussion website Soi.com.vn....
cnualart
Dec 22, 20128 min read
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Does Contemporary Vietnamese Art still have something to say? Part 2 of 3 by Laurent Colin
Return to part 1 of this essay here. Continue to part 3 here. Artists as victims of their environment? To explain the current slump in...
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Dec 22, 20129 min read
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Does Contemporary Vietnamese Art still have something to say? Part 3 of 3 by Laurent Colin
Read part 1 of this essay here, and part 2 here. An Art under foreign diktat but which escapes criticism In this context, one can assert...
cnualart
Dec 22, 201210 min read
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The art of freedom
Tu Do (pronounced tuyo), Vietnamese for freedom, is the name of the first art gallery in South Vietnam. It opened in the newly named Ho...
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Dec 10, 20112 min read
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The art of freedom
Tu Do (pronounced tuyo), Vietnamese for freedom, is the name of the first art gallery in South Vietnam. It opened in the newly named Ho...
cnualart
Dec 10, 20112 min read
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Art in Vietnam: censorship and traditional lacquer painting
This is my first finished lacquer painting, titled ‘The F word’. I started making it at the beginning of August 2011, and found the...
cnualart
Aug 28, 20111 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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Shit Lacquer Paintings
This week I visited the HCMC Fine Arts Museum to see Khai Doan‘s ‘Dipolar’ exhibition. The Vietnamese artist, who is fun to talk to, has...
cnualart
Dec 12, 20101 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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