Now the 36-year-old's own art reflects colorful, dreamy landscapes and scenes of village life. Most of his paintings are from rural life along the Red River Delta or from urban scenes inspired by settings in Hanoi, where he works. ...full story

Such is the case with the New York artist Jonathan Horowitz in this smart, crisply edited retrospective. The works evoke the media-saturated art of the 1970s, the neo-Conceptualist consumer art of the 1980s, and the identity art of the 1990s, ...full story

But most Vietnamese still in Southeast Asia remember the conflict as a good war — proof of Ho Chi Minh's popular dictum that “nothing is more precious than independence and freedom.” Many Americans perceive Vietnam as “a failure of American ...full story

By Maurice Arcache A HOT TICKET IN TOWN was the recent “Van Hagen & Van Hagen: Brothers in Art Part 2,” a reprise of the highly successful 2007 exhibit by those talented brothers Alex and Han Van Hagen, dahlings. Held at the Peninsula Manila's The ...full story

His adventurous spirit took him back to Berlin in 1989 to witness the fall of the Berlin wall, of which he bought four sections for an installation in Jakarta. After the May 1998 riots, he became intrigued with video and made a number of video art ...full story

... to current art trends. Sentimental and pretentious might be the keyword in explaining the kitsch we find in Jakarta. "I am really into *Greek* classical architecture," said Hartono Wijaya, owner of a furniture shop in Pondok Pinang, South Jakarta. ...full story

SYDNEY - A sombre depiction of the desolation facing the Anzacs in Turkey won New Zealand artist Euan MacLeod the prestigious Gallipoli Art Prize in Sydney today. The Christchurch-born artist picked up a A$20000 ($25777) cheque and became the first New ...full story

The exhibition is curated by Tobias Berger in association with Para/Site Art Space, and marks the debut for a solo representation of Hong Kong in Venice. Pak's interest lies in the possibilities of discovering extraordinarily profound and insightful ...full story

The hype following the group's full length debut The Printz, essentially a collection of ramshackle EPs, put The Bumblebeez on the map and the buzz from the trend-setting act was felt from Sydney to New York and beyond. Thanks to its indie noise, ...full story

With galleries from Aberdeen to Hanoi represented, art dealers spoke of fending off the bite of the recession as buyers seek out artists they rate as being safe investments. "It's challenging," said Duncan Miller, a London-based dealer and an expert on ...full story