I can hear the soft rhythm of wooden blocks echoing in my mind as I gaze upon Đoàn Văn Tới’s silk paintings. Misty, calm, and meditative — his work breathes…
Eight months after my last visit, I returned to Hanoi and found myself once again at Indochine House—this time guided by Tâm and Liên, whose company enriched my experience in…
I recently visited Villepin for their latest exhibition, Worlds Within: Art as Refuge, a contemplative journey through the works of four artists from across the nations: Zao Wou-Ki, Fernando Zóbel, Lê…
Nguyễn Tường Tam 阮祥叄 (1906–1963), also known as Nhất Linh 一靈, was a multifaceted figure — a painter, a novelist, a poet, a journalist, a key leader of the Self-Reliant Literary Association (Tự Lực Văn Đoàn), and a politician.
Iola Lenzi invokes the enduring words of Fyodor Dostoyevsky from his 1869 novel The Idiot: “Beauty will save the world.” In this phrase, beauty transcends the aesthetic—it becomes a moral and…