This article was published in Word Vietnam magazine, September 2013, pp. 76-79. [ezcol_1half] 1 Ceramics More recently, international art...

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...

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...

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’!...

This essay, originally written in French by Laurent Colin, was first published in Vietnamese on the art discussion website Soi.com.vn....

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...

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...

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...

Sometime in my first year of living in Saigon I came across a key-cutter at work at his small metal cart on a pavement. He’d borrowed...

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...

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...

Yesterday an annual art exhibition and silent auction helped raise money to give disabled people in Vietnam a wheelchair. Arts For...

This is the full version of the article published in pages 46-47 of issue 42 of Asia Life magazine in September 2011. [ezcol_2fifth] How...

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...

[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...

Unlike nearby Asian countries that are about to enter the year of the rabbit, Vietnam chooses to start the year of the cat. And Ho Chi...

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...

The drawings are all very well executed, but it’s the variety of people and faces that engages the eye more than technical precision....

There’s nothing like a good dose of culture shock to creativize one’s zest for life. Around the time of the great tsunami, I lived in...

As a teenager I went to see a Minimalist art exhibition in Barcelona that ( I realised years later) was really influential. First, there...