Art

Veteran Portrait Art Exhibit at the VA Museum in NYC

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…

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Danh Vo Wins Prestigious Art Award

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…

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Binh Dinh's Vietnam War-Influenced Innovative Photography

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…

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Tom Hubbard's 'Semper Fidelis' Exhibit at Kent State

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,…

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Veteran Sculptor Rolf Kriken's Latest Work

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…

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Michael Kelley, 1946-2011

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…

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Marine Air Art from WWII to Today

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…

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Vann Nath, 1946-2011

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…

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Veterans' Art Show in Brooklyn

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…

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Prints of the Nance Vietnam Bronze Map

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…

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