Nguyen Phan Chanh was a Vietnamese artist known for his silk paintings depicting village life. Born in 1892 in Ha Tinh, Vietnam, he studied at the l’Ecole des Beaux-arts d’Indochine in Hanoi. The ...

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The Vietnamese artist Thao Nguyen Phan is fond of stories that others don’t want to hear. Stories about the war, for instance. In 1979, after the Vietnamese army overthrew the Khmer Rouge, her uncle ...

This week on Under the Radar: In a new book, author Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai braids together the stories of a young mother hoping for a life in America, an adult son searching for the father he never knew ...

Author Nguyen Phan Que Mai is a poet and world traveler whose first novel, The Mountains Sing, is about four generations of a Vietnamese family enduring many hardships — something she understands well ...

BFA Fine Arts presents an online visiting artist lecture with artist Thao Nguyen Phan. Trained as a painter, Phan is a multimedia artist whose practice encompasses video, painting and installation.

When the American war machine withdrew from Vietnam, it left a lot behind. It left a military debacle so mismanaged it became a common metaphor for disaster. It left years of fighting that saw tens of ...

War in Vietnam has been at the center of many outstanding and wrenching American books and films. But the Vietnamese who suffered most in that war are often portrayed mostly as bystanders, victims or ...

Bonhams Cornette de Saint Cyr held its first successful sale in Paris dedicated to Vietnamese Modernity under the direction of specialist Joan Yip (Wednesday 14 December). In Paris on 14 December ...