Arts of War
“The Girl in the Photograph” and “Children of Fire”
December 11, 2019
In 1972, the jazz trumpeter and composer Hannibal Lokumbe was so taken with the famed “The Girl in the Photograph” image of nine-year-old Kim Phuc naked and fleeing a napalm attack in South Vietnam that…
‘Thunder Mountain’: A Country-Rock Single about a Vietnam War Veteran
November 26, 2019
County music singer/songwriter Rob Appleblatt’s second single, “Thunder Mountain,” is a powerful country rocker that deals with a Vietnam War veteran’s post-war struggles. The song, Appleblatt says, “is about the selfless sacrifice our warriors make for…
LOC’s Veterans and the Arts — Stories from the Veterans History Project
November 20, 2019
The Library of Congress' Veterans History Project---a massive collection of recorded oral, written, and photographic personal accounts of American war veterans---recently unveiled a web feature called the Veterans and the Arts Showcase Companion. It's a…
‘Journeys Onward’ Exhibit at the R.I. Center for Photographic Arts
October 30, 2019
Thomas Morrissey is an accomplished photographer who has taught photography for many years at MIT, the Rhode Island School of Design and at Texas A&M University, Texarkana. A Vietnam War veteran and life member of…
An Evening with Tim O’Brien
October 17, 2019
The great Tim O'Brien is on a nationwide book tour for his first literary offering in seventeen years, Dad’s Maybe Book, a non-fiction meditation on late fatherhood, war in general, and the Vietnam War and his…
MacArthur Foundation Grant to Ocean Vuong
September 25, 2019
Every year, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation presents large financial grants to creative people--the so-called "Genius Grants." The Foundation recently announced this year's MacArthur Fellows, each of whom will receive $650,000 over…
New Aussie Vietnam War film: ‘Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan’
September 18, 2019
"Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan" is an exceedingly rare 21st-century breed: an in-country Vietnam War movie. Even rarer, this one tells an Australian Vietnam War story. The film came out Down Under in…
On View in Chicago: Vietnam War Veteran Artist Maurice Costello’s Compelling Art
September 11, 2019
“Maurice Costello: Back to ‘The Nam,’” is the name of the new exhibit at the National Veterans Art Museum (formerly the National Vietnam Veterans Art Museum) in Chicago. As the title implies, the exhibit features…
Dale Dye Continues to Gain Accolades
August 14, 2019
Retired Marine Capt. Dale Dye, who received the VVA Excellence in the Arts Award at the 1997 National Convention in Kansas City for all but re-inventing the art of military technology advising in Hollywood, received…
Wes Studi to Receive Honorary Oscar
July 10, 2019
Wes Studi, the celebrated American Indian actor and Vietnam War veteran best known for his powerful work in Dancing with Wolves and Last of the Mohicans, will receive an honorary Oscar from the Academy of Motion Picture…