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...

This article was cross-posted on the Hanoi Grapevine. Art Stage attempted to bridge the gap between high-brow collectors and the general...

This article was published in Word Vietnam magazine, January 2014, p.16. In Vietnam, it is rare to see exhibitions of the most prominent...

This article was published in Word Vietnam magazine, December 2013, pp. 98-99. [ezcol_2fifth] [/ezcol_2fifth] [ezcol_3fifth_end] ‘What...

This article was published in Word Vietnam magazine, December 2013, p.16. [ezcol_1half] How do you explain your job to people? In a...

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

This exhibition review was published in the August 2013 issue of Word Vietnam magazine. Artist Le Hien Minh’s use of Vietnamese dó paper...

I make slow art because I like to explore each idea with lots of documentation and different materials. But this type of labourious...

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’!...

Today Vietnam celebrates the Chinese New Year, and Saigon, the biggest city, is the only place where I have seen red hearts pop out of...

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...

This little painting is my donation to the Arts For Mobility art auction that will take place this Saturday in the Saigon Opera House....

Colombian artist Johanna Calle just opened her exhibition of material-happy drawings in San Art, Saigon, where I spoke to her before she...

In December 2011, I helped organise an art auction at the Saigon Opera as part of the Arts For Mobility annual event.  I was delighted...

The world’s landfills have been dusted with the discarded union jacks that briefly saluted the Queen of England’s jubilee last fortnight....

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...

Recently a Hanoi art exhibition by Lolo Zazar showcased paintings that are directly inspired by these hybrids between graffiti and...

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...