December 3, 2012
A dozen large oil portraits of veterans are now on view at the VA's New York City Museum, located on the second floor of the VA Regional office in Manhattan. The paintings, the work of…
November 2, 2012
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation announced on November 1 that Danh Võ---a Conceptual artist who fled his native Vietnam with his family in 1979 and settled in Denmark when he was four years old---has been awarded…
June 6, 2012
"Lens" is the name of a New York Times blog that features photography, video, and "visual journalism." One of the current entrie s on the blog looks at the unique and innovative photographic images…
March 26, 2012
Tom Kindt Hubbard of Columbia City, Indiana, was two years old when his father, U.S. Marine Sgt. Thomas Patrick Kindt, was killed in action in Vietnam on September 21, 1966. A few years ago, Hubbard,…
March 14, 2012
Rolf Kriken, the acclaimed California sculptor who served in the U.S. Army from 1962-65, is best known creating all of the bronze sculptures at the California Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Sacramento, such as the ones…
January 26, 2012
Michael "Machine Gun" Kelley, a nationally renowned Vietnam veteran artist and writer, died December 24 at his home in Sacramento, California. He committed suicide. Kelley was 65 years old and had been suffering from physical…
January 15, 2012
"Fly Marines! The Centennial of Marine Corps Aviation: 1912-2012" is the name of a new exhibit that opened on January 14 at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum . The exhibit is made up…
September 6, 2011
Vann Nath, one of Cambodia's most promient artists, died of cardiac arrest on September 5. He was 65 years old and was one of a handful of survivors (only two of whom are alive today) of the notorious…
April 22, 2011
The Prophecies art and antiques gallery, which is housed in a brownstone (townhouse) in the Park Slope section of Brooklyn, New York, is owned and operated by a 63-year-old Army veteran, Lenny Goodstein. The gallery's…
April 21, 2011
Last November , we wrote about the work of former USAF pilot James Nance, a Vietnam veteran and Vietnam Veterans of America member, a retired airline pilot, and an accomplished sculptor. We noted that his…