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Every three months, DVAN features the work of a different Vietnamese artist,
one who is either working in the diaspora or who has returned to Viet Nam.
This quarter, our featured artist is Doan Hoang.
Read more about Doan Hoang.
In this section you will find various essays and commentaries that address Vietnamese diasporic arts, literature, and culture. If you have something you would like to contribute, please let us know. The views expressed in these essays and commentaries are the writers' own, and not necessarily endorsed by DVAN.
Nguyen Qui Duc writes about the controversies surrounding the 1999 exhibit A Winding River: The Journey of Contemporary Art in Vietnam. As anyone familiar with Vietnamese diasporic art and its exhibition is aware, there are often deep disputes among artists, organizers, and audiences around the staging of art in the Vietnamese diasporic communities. Duc's editorial in the LA Times takes a position on these disputes.
Many Vietnamese Americans have returned to Viet Nam to do business, study, go on vacation, or work on their art, as the Wall Street Journal reports here.
transPOP: Korea Viet Nam Remix opening reception, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, December 2008