Yearly Archives: 2010
this is all i choose to tell: Isabelle Thuy Pelaud’s New Book
I was twenty-one years old when I started studying for my doctorate in English. Isabelle Thuy Pelaud was a friend of mine, and had...
Contemporary art space Galerie Quynh in Saigon
Do you enjoy reading diaCRITICS? Then please consider subscribing!The contemporary art scene in Saigon has changed a great deal in the last decade. It used...
Barley Norton’s Hanoi Eclipse: The Music of Dai Lam Linh
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQmpfGNkk2k In Barley Norton’s documentary film Hanoi Eclipse: The Music of Dai Lam Linh, produced earlier this year, the composer Ngoc Dai uses foul language, eats...
A Look at "Realism in Asian Art" & "Avant-Garde in Asian Art"
diaCRITICS occasionally has guest bloggers. Here Boitran Huynh-Beattie—a professor, curator and art historian in Australia—reviews her experience in October in Korea with an exhibition...
Eye Level: The Photographs of Jamie Maxtone-Graham
I saw Jamie Maxtone-Graham's work long before I met him. I didn't know his was the work I was seeing. This was back in...
diaCRITICIZE: The Stuff Vietnamese People Like
Hello. This is the first editor's note for diaCRITICS, which we've decided to call diaCRITICIZE: The Stuff Vietnamese People Like. It's silly, I know, but you'll get over it and so will we. Or maybe we won't and we'll change it later.
Must See: Binh Danh’s "Collecting Memories" at Mills College
If you're in the Bay Area, you have to check out Binh Danh's show, "Collecting Memories," at Mills College in Oakland from August 1-December 12....
Đồng Xuân – Vietnamesen in Berlin
Xin vui lòng xem bản tiếng Việt bên dưới. Scroll down for the Vietnamese language version.This looks like it will be a terrific show....
Khanh Ho: Burning Man
Do you enjoy reading diaCRITICS? Then please consider subscribing!Everybody’s seen this picture: the cross-legged priest in the saffron robe, burning, blazing orange. His shaved head—a...
In Conversation with artist Hoang Duong Cam
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...