VietNamNet Bridge – It's the age old problem for collectors in Vietnamese art. US-based businessman Duong Quang Chan wanted to buy several high-end paintings, but his Hanoian friends urged him to employ caution as the domestic market is flooded with fakes. Picture perfect: … [Read more...]
Handicraft sector told to refresh itself
October 23, 2012 By
Thuy Dung HANOI – The handicraft industry provides many jobs, especially in rural areas, and brings in billions of dollars in export revenue each year. However, in changing local and foreign markets with consumer tastes never staying the same, the industry is facing an urgent need for change to … [Read more...]
Khue Nguyen — a Naked Star
September 28, 2012 By
Guest diaCRITIC blogger Boitran Huynh-Beattie—a professor, curator and art historian in Australia—introduces a talented Vietnamese-Australian gay artist, Khue Nguyen. Last year, Nguyen was a finalist with his self-portrait, Unleashed, in the prestigious Archibald Prize of 2010. He is currently … [Read more...]
In Conversation with Artist Hoang Duong Cam
September 23, 2012 By
I met artist Hoang Duong Cam on an art trip to Vietnam in 2007 and was immediately struck by the impact of his artwork—at once deeply personal and thoughtful as well as fantastically creative and culturally relevant. As I perused his website I came across a diverse range of recent and upcoming … [Read more...]
Motherland
September 17, 2012 By
I remember a short story “Chi Yen” (Sister Yen) from the writer Ho Dzenh, he writes: “Oh, Vietnam! I bow towards this country, on the trails of the paddy, where I can smell the earth, because I drink the water and speak the language of this country; because I deeply love this country even … [Read more...]
Book: Bui Huu Hung – A Novel Tradition
September 15, 2012 By
Category: Artists, Individual Unit Price: US$50.00 Description: Bui Huu Hung is an artist of HaNoi whose work is in the traditional media of lacquer painting. His works are like the new HaNoi both steeped in tradition but painted in a thoroughly modern context. "Bui Huu Hung undoubtedly … [Read more...]
Book: Dao Hai Phong – Twilight Moment
September 14, 2012 By
Category: Artists, Individual Unit Price: US$50.00 Description: Dao Hai Phong paints rural and urban landscapes with brilliant flowing waves of merging colors and light. For Phong, color is language and we are moved by the poetry he creates. Phong's works are imbued with rich, vivid … [Read more...]
Book: Le Thiet Cuong – The Way Beyond Landscape
September 13, 2012 By
Category: Artists, Individual Unit Price: US$30.00 Description: An exhibition book by an artist, who is well known in VietNam and abroad. Le Thiet Cuong's vision of beauty does not come from nature, but rather, from his heart and mind. Published in 2000 VN. 54 pages, hard … [Read more...]
Tombstone for Phùng Vo A Grave Marker for Danh Vo’s Father Comes to Minneapolis
September 13, 2012 By
BY BARTHOLOMEW RYAN “Here lies one whose name was writ in water.” So reads the inscription on a black stone with gold-leaf engraving that will be installed in the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden in the spring of 2012. Titled Tombstone for Phùng Vo (2010), it’s one of several works by artist … [Read more...]
Book: Bui Xuan Phai – The life and works
September 12, 2012 By
Category: Artists, Individual Unit Price: US$99.00 Description: Recognized as the definitive work on Phai and his impressive lifelong body of work, it is published to mark the 10th anniversary of the master painter's death. Written by his son Bui Thanh Phuong, and Tran Hau Tuan, a friend … [Read more...]
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