Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly ... This is the Socialist Republic of Vietnam and a prolific signer of free-trade deals. (A serene Ho Chi Minh gazes at me ...

“In talking to young students,” Dalzell said, “when you talk about Vietnam, they have no idea what it was.” For these reasons, Dalzell and other veterans are grateful for an art exhibition ...

Special correspondent Mike Cerre reports. Next: a look at the growing contemporary art market in Vietnam. For years, artists there created works around the country's many wars. Today, there is a ...

with staff members Nicolas Orozco-Valdivia and Kris Kuramitsu — is no doubt an indicator of the economic rise of Vietnam. As we’ve seen with China and India, a strong contemporary art market ...

The Vietnam War ended 50 years ago, but its effects continue to be felt by people in the United States, and one organization is trying to heal through art. Erin Phuong Steinhauer and her husband ...

Long live the glorious Communist Party of Vietnam." Its messages are rhetorical, the style rigidly formulaic, but the bright colors and simple forms are reminiscent of American pop art.

But a new project is showing Vietnamese how to transform these manufacturing supplies into works of art. The “Factories as Studios Vietnam” program has big ambitions. It is not just trying to ...

After a couple close calls with death, contracting malaria and discovering the majority of his heavy weapons squad was killed in action, Art Dohrmann returned from the Vietnam War and took all the ...

"I think the red makes people think." And that is not something readily encouraged by the artistic censors in Vietnam. Performance art is still largely viewed as a decadent, foreign art form ...

Melillo brings photos he took in Vietnam back to life on canvas. The 74-year-old only started painting about five years ago. Now his art is featured in galleries and has opened his world to ...

Revisiting Vietnam as a young man, he came to see the country and its trials as the primary subject of his art; in 2005 he moved to Ho Chi Minh City, where he continues to live and work.