Art

Query: Images Wanted for VA Hospitals

December 1, 2010

The organization called ImagineItSkins.com has concentrated on helping children heal faster and feel more positive during hospitalizations by providing bright, engaging images to hospitals and clinics. The Utah-based for-profit company has launched a new effort to…

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Monumental Bronze VN Map at USAFA

November 9, 2010

James Nance (above) , a former USAF pilot and Vietnam veteran, today is a retired airline pilot and an accomplished sculptor. Nance, who lives in Loveland, Colorado, specializes in Abraham Lincoln, portraits, and monumental figure…

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Art of the American Soldier

November 3, 2010

That's the title of an exhibit made up of 250 paintings and sketches done by  American soldiers in the line of duty that has been on view at the National Constitution Center on Arch Street…

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Leo Cullum, 1942-2010

November 2, 2010

Leo Cullum, 68, one of the nation's most prolific and celebrated cartoonists, died of cancer October 23 in Los Angeles. Cullum, who had more than 800 of his light-hearted cartoons---many featuring dogs and cats, businessmen…

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National Veterans Creative Arts Fest On Now

October 18, 2010

This year's National Veterans Creative Arts Festival began today, October 18, and will run through October  24, hosted by the Tomah VA Medical Center and held in La Crosse, Wisconsin. Sponsored by the Department of…

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Biss, Bles and a Sentry Dog Sculpture

September 1, 2010

WW II Marine raider painted by Joe Bles We recently heard from Nancy Lynch, who put together the excellent book, Vietnam Mailbag, Voices From the War: 1968-1972 . As I said in my review in…

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Modern Art: VNese Perspectives on the Helicopter War

August 21, 2010

The artist Dinh Q. Lê was born in Vietnam at the height of the American war there, in 1968.  He came to this country with his family ten years later; today he is an accomplished…

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Pioneering Vietnamese Ancient Art Exhibit in NYC

March 8, 2010

"Arts of Ancient Viet Nam: From River Plain to Open Sea" is the title of the first large exhibit of ancient Vietnamese Art in this country. It opened Feb. 2 at the Asia Society in…

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Vietnam War Combat Art

January 20, 2010

There's an excellent essay by the artist Jim Pollock (above ) on the U.S. Army's Vietnam Combat Art Program in the current issue of War, Literature and The Arts , the first-rate literary journal published…

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I Am Vietnam Art Exhibit by Jon York

November 14, 2009

The Springs Art Gallery , a veteran-friendly space in El Dorado Spring, Missouri, is running an exhibit that commemorates military service and highlights the issue of PTSD. It's called "I am Vietnam, " and is…

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