Co Tan Long Chau, “Air Defence Team” (1960s), battlefield sketch, Ho Chi Minh City Fine Arts Museum (photo by the author for Hyperallergic) Artist Pham Thanh Tam discussing with Ho Chi Minh art works ...

The panel at the ‘Art and Propaganda’ talk, moderated by Hyperallergic’s Hrag Vartanian, in conversation with Associate Professor of Art History and Museum Studies, Miriam M. Basilio; artist and half ...

You may be familiar with the works of Thomas Hart Benton, the Neosho, Mo.-born painter and muralist who became part of the Regionalist movement in the 1930s and '40s. The son of a congressman, Benton ...

Whether they belonged to people who were close to us or were collected by complete strangers, someone famous, or someone who lived a seemingly common life, collections and artifacts left behind offer ...

At the direction of the Nazi regime, thousands of works of art across Europe were confiscated, destroyed or sold to fund the Nazi war machine. Others were used as propaganda – promoting the idea that ...

HANOI (Reuters) - Much has changed in Vietnamese life in the 50 years since the end of the Vietnam War. The streets of the once-impoverished country now bustle with commerce and young people carry the ...

Baroque art was propaganda for the state or for the Church. Baroque art was propaganda — for the state or for the Church. It inspired the masses to believe that the authority of the prince and the ...