Another honor for artist at center of Nguoi Viet’s controversy
Saturday, March 15th, 2008
The artist at the center of an ongoing protest against Nguoi Viet Daily News, Chau Huynh, recently was named a “2008 ArtSeen Emerging Artist” by L.A. ArtSeen.
Read the announcement here. Click on number 19 to see a sample artwork by Chau Huynh.
Chau Huynh’s artwork published on Nguoi Viet’s special Tet issue became the target of a group of protesters who claim the work demeans South Vietnam’s flag.
The protests are still ongoing, with about a half-dozen people camping out in front of Nguoi Viet’s offices continuously.
Google Chau Huynh’s name in Vietnamese (Hu?nh Th?y Châu) and you get hundreds of hits at Vietnamese web sites and blogs. Like this. You would wish your name would bring up that many hits!
Chau Huynh was a Robert & Colleen Haas Scholar when she was at UC Berkeley, and she’s now a graduate student in the MFA program at UC Davis.
For a background on the protests, read story by My-Thuan Tran on the L.A. Times here. The Bolsavik’s termination as Nguoi Viet’s managing editor is mentioned but not by name.
The OC Weekly also has a story by Nick Schou here. Over the phone, however, Schou didn’t realize that there’s supposed to be another quotation mark inside the Bolsavik’s quote, like so: “People came up to me. ‘My mom thought it was inappropriate’; ‘my dad thought it was inappropriate.’ It’s not an extreme position to think it was inappropriate.” Oh well, not his fault.
ArtSeen is an art exhibit and charity auction event to benefit AIDS research.
The jury for 2008 ArtSeen Emerging Artists reads like a Who’s Who of contemporary art curating:
Stephenie Dillon- Capital Group Companies, Curator
Howard Fox- Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art
David Gere - UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures, Associate Professor AIDS/Arts Activism
Rebecca Morse- Museum of Contemporary Art, Assistant Curator
John Murdoch- The Huntington, The Kully Director of Art Collections
Glenn Phillips- The Getty Research Institute, Consulting Curator in Contemporary Programs and Research
