Saigon Museums

Category: Vietnam

Viet­nam is one of the low­est rank­ing coun­tries on the free­dom of speech index.  Vis­it­ing the Fine Arts Museum is sur­real, feels like a time warp.  Uncle Ho appears in every paint­ing, sculp­ture, draw­ing and dis­ap­point­ingly in the major­ity of con­tem­po­rary works on dis­play.  It would be like walk­ing into the MoMa and see­ing JFK fea­tured in every piece of art.  It’s hard to imag­ine that Vietnam’s avant-garde youth feel that he embod­ies their esprit and cre­ative expres­sion.   Here it seems that Uncle Ho por­trai­ture is a pre­req­ui­site for recog­ni­tion and exhibition.

Nov 3, 2009 by Yan and Chan
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  1. tony cum­ber­batch writes:
    November 6th, 2009 at 5:43 am

    I have been fol­low­ing your jour­ney from time to time. Your reflec­tions on Cam­bo­dia and Saigon are quite impres­sive. This is the stuff of a doc­u­men­tary, and cer­tainly a book. Good going.

    Tony

  2. annette writes:
    November 6th, 2009 at 9:50 am

    An inter­est­ing report on the atti­tudes of Viet­namese — espe­cially the youth. The more things change, the more they remain the same?

  3. Yanand­Chan writes:
    November 26th, 2009 at 10:06 am

    Thanks so much for the sup­port and encour­age­ment Uncle Tony. This has been one amaz­ing, enlight­en­ing trip and we are very excited to see how all the pieces come together cre­atively in the future. Keep the com­ments com­ing, and walk good! ;)

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