Bui Nhu Huong (b. 1953), belongs to the first batch of post-war Vietnamese art critics.
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Art critic Tran Dan Vy explores the evolution of classical Chinese dance.
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Speaking with Art Nation, Leon Le discusses his refusal to equate success with international film festival validation, and the profound yet unheralded poetics of Vietnamese cinema.
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Archive / Post–Archive at VCCA, part of Photo Hanoi ‘25 orbits around the aftermath of post-colonial trauma, and wonder whether we can fully shed its legacies.
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“Figuring a shape”, co-organised by Phu Sa Art Foundation and Lan Tinh Foundation, introduces 71 sketches by late artist To Ngoc Van – a slice of the artist’s immense body of work…
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“Saigon has more theatres than we imagined. There may be few theatres, but stages are everywhere,” Aaron Toronto and John Andrew Cunnington told me during a serendipitous meeting one afternoon.
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Quynh Dong (b. 1982, Hai Phong, Vietnam) is a performance and video-based artist based in Switzerland. Her practice transforms hyper-realism into surrealism through hyper-kitsch expressions to revitalise the notion of a cliche aesthetic…
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“The year is XXXX” explores how adventure is used to invent fantastical fictions of foreign lands and as a strategy of escape from colonial subjugation. What sets this exhibition apart is its continuously evolving nature. Unlike conventional exhibitions curated by a single curator, every six weeks, within an open space at EMASI Van Phuc, guest […]
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The exhibition “Means of Production” was organised and curated by Lunch Hour, taking place from 18 May to 31 July 2024.
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Junquo Nimura (b. 1970) is a Professor at Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan. After studying art history at the University of Paris IV, she lived in Shanghai between 2004 and 2007, before obtaining her MA and PhD from the University of Tokyo. Her book “The History of Modern Vietnamese Art: The Half-Century under French Rule” came […]