Those familiar with contemporary Vietnamese art will likely remember at least one of several installations, video or environmental artworks by Hoang Duong Cam, a young Hanoi-born and educated artist based in Ho Chi Minh City since 2001. A Relevant Suggestion Phuong Lien Vu Courtesy of the artist, Hoang Duong Cam Those familiar with contemporary Vietnamese […]

"The Adoration of the Virgins", Ellen Depoorter’s installation of six large-scale paintings arranged side by side to form one large wall fresco (measuring 7 by 28 feet), comprises almost the full length of the long and narrow Transplant Gallery. Virgins Ab-whored By Jeroen De Schrijver "The Adoration of the Virgins", Ellen Depoorter’s installation of six […]

War is usually the first thing that we think of in America, when we hear the word Vietnam. This year, Vietnam will be celebrating the 30th anniversary of the end of that war, and life there has changed quite a bit since 1975. The economy has developed in recent years, and this period of relative […]

Mark Jones is a frequent visitor to Vietnam. His pinhole camera is a constant companion whenever he travels. Very long exposure times are essential to produce an image on the film and therein lay the secret of his technique. Traditional lens-based photography is usually accomplished in fractions of a second, whereas pinhole photography often takes […]

"Subversion, which forged its first weapons from art, has now become the art of handling every sort of weapon." — From The Revolution of Everyday Life, Raoul Vaneigem, 1967.’ (Incomplete) History Matt Distel, Associate Curator newsense enterprises, in side out, 2005. Courtesy of the artists. Photo credit: Clare Norwood. "Subversion, which forged its first weapons […]

Upon entering any of the artworks of the artist James Turrell, one’s first impression is of exquisite blankness. The atmosphere is subdued and silent. The space holds an inexplicable power to calm and soothe. We have entered the world of light; our eyes blink at this dreamlike luminescence. You are "feeling with your eyes," the […]

The tremendously appealing exhibition "From Leipzig?? at the Cleveland Museum of Art features seven lusciously executed large-scale works that revel in the use of painting as pure absurdist theatre. Rich with conflicting symbols and diverse modes of representation, each work becomes a complex visual puzzle, which in turn leads to an endless string of seemingly […]

One can only marvel at the voracity with which the demons of the New York gallery/museum scene have scrupulously resurrected some of the lost souls of the 1960s after paying no attention to them for 45 years and allowing them to grow old and gray while children were given license to spread their excrement on […]

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The sunny, flat and fertile plains of the province of Saskatchewan grow more than half of Canada?s major export crops: wheat, oats, barley, and so on. A Tale Of Three Cities Piri Halasz and David Evison Robert Christie, "Coffee Creme", 2004, Acrylic on Canvas, 71" x 43 The sunny, flat and fertile plains of the […]