Monthly Archives: December, 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...