...Nora A. Taylor Since 1995, artists in Vietnam have been staging performance art events in alternative art spaces around Hà Nôi and Hô Chí Minh City, often defying government restrictions on public gatherings. That they take place outside of the ordinary venues for art, such as galleries and museums...

...Vinh Phu Pham Kiều Chinh , Kiều Chinh: An Artist in Exile; A Memoir . Irvine, CA : Văn Học , 2021 . 500 pages. $40.00 (hardcover). Kim Vui , Love Found and Lost: The Kim Vui Story . Lubbock : Texas Tech University Press , 2022 . 260 pages. $26.95 (hardcover), $9.95...

...Nora A. Taylor; Pamela N. Corey Đổi Mới reforms triggered significant changes in the Vietnamese art world, including new institutional spaces, platforms for critical discourse, and growing artistic mobility. However, it is important to question the ways in which the use of Đổi Mới as a blanket...

.... The introduction opens with examples of art projects that document bomb craters and critique the generational cost of Agent Orange. It explains how pieces situated in public settings—like Damaged Gene (1998), an installation in a Hồ Chí Minh City market by artist Dinh Q. Lê—activate contrasting responses among...

... In Return Engagements , the curator/artist/researcher Việt Lê draws a vivid picture of global art history viewed from the peripheral perspectives of the local and the diasporic as they move dynamically across the world. The author focuses on Vietnam and Cambodia, where he examines the return of artists who...

...Kerstin Tuttle Upon moving to the United States from Vietnam at the age of sixteen, the multimedia artist Teo Nguyen realized that “many Americans think of Vietnam as a war, not a country.” His recent Minneapolis Institute of Art exhibit Việt Nam Peace Project / Giấc mơ hòa bình visually...

... in an interview in 2007, “but I was close to it. Many people knew this; the government knew. I was involved from the start with NVGP, an artistic movement committed to free expression. I was close to Trần Dần, Phùng Quán, Hoàng Cầm, and Lê Đạt, and I always stood beside them.” 2 Dương Tường reported...

... that invoke a reframing of self-reliance. Nguy n Th Thanh Mai is the director of Day by Day and Bùi Lêna or Lêna Bùi, as she is better known is the screenwriter and director of the film N ng B ng Ph ng [Flat Sunlight]. The art production of these two young artists encompasses diverse media, including...

...Thi Gammon thi.gammon@gmail.com © 2023 by The Regents of the University of California 2023 Em và Trịnh , the 2022 feature film directed by Phan Gia Nhật Linh, 1 depicts the life and work of Trịnh Công Sơn (1939–2001)—an artist whose melancholic music and poetic lyrics make him...

...Nguyễn Quốc Thành; Gabby Miller © 2020 by The Regents of the University of California 2020 M U L T I M E D I A R E V I E W N G U Y N Q U C T H À N H A N D G A B B Y M I L L E R m Queer / Queer Lust: Open Dialogue This text revolves around a dialogue between artists and longtimefriends...

... on August Seeking to represent the artists views on the war in a self-critical way, the exhibit juxtapose[d] artistic anti-war positions from the s in the form of photomontage, videos, painting, photography and original documents, with current art from Vietnam Several young artists from Vietnam s post-war...

.... The museum celebrated the notion that the Netherlands and its Dutch East Indies government were beneficently acting as stewards of the artistic riches of Java’s distant Hindu-Buddhist past, even though the people in that area had long been converted to Islam. The statue returned to Java in 1978 via...

...Christophe Robert M U L T I M E D I A R E V I E W In One s Breath Nothing Stands Still: A Multimedia Exhibition in H Chí Minh City Entering: Breathing Stone Dust In One s Breath Nothing Stands Still, a solo multimedia exhibition by pro- minent Vietnamese contemporary artist Tu n Mami, curated...

... such gems as a discussion of the ridicule of the stereotype as a weapon of the weak which has broad implications for Vietnamese studies, Southeast Asian studies, Asian studies, and Asian American studies. In-depth discussion of the artistic 100 R E V I E W S works summarized as portraits of the Cham...

... the beginning of this century, which were very passionate. Then, we had real literature, real artists breathing with their time. Today is so different. People nowadays hold their breath, waiting for the sky and sea to become calm again. Then they trim their beards, slip on their shoes, pull up their jeans...

... exterminates once and for all those who sacrificed their lives for the survival of our people Though the i M i [Renovation] policy was promulgated as early as to c i trói [untie] artists and writers, and Party Chief Nguy n V n Linh encouraged artists and writers to safeguard the integrity of your...

... such as Gene Luen Yang s American Born Chinese and Sonny Liew s The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye, a stunning history of Singapore from the perspective of a fictional comic artist. Born in South Carolina in Gia-Bao GB Tran is the youngest of these three authors, but Vietnamerica was published earlier than...

... this story while highlighting the artistic expression of Vietnamese in the camps. Law s book is divided into two distinct sections. The first section provides a thorough synopsis of Hong Kong s history with Vietnamese boat people from through the s. Much of this work is drawn from secondary sources...

... I have been asked the question, How much of The Mountains Sing is your real-life experiences? I totally agree with Viet Thanh Nguyen. I am an artist and a novelist, not a historian or sociologist or reporter. While the reality of my homeland forms the basis of my understanding and the pillar of my...

... French artists ranging from orien- talist painter Marius Reynaud to Auguste Rodin. His remarks on taking refuge in landscape painting allow Dabat to interpret his work as a response to exile, rooted in the classical Chinese aesthetic that he would have known in the Confucian court of Vietnam s last...