In the art world, as everywhere else, nothing would look the same after the Vietnam War. A show at the Smithsonian American Art Museum asks how artists responded ...

SUZANNE LECHT, Art Vietnam Gallery: The painting is entitled "Hope," the hope for the future. You see the figure walking on lotus, which is a symbol of purity in Vietnam.

On Kawara, “Title,” 1965, at “Artists Respond: American Art and the Vietnam War, 1965-1975.” He began a clock-ticking series of paintings consisting entirely of calendar dates.

The Vietnam War ended 50 years ago, but its effects continue to be felt by people in the United States, and one organization is trying to heal through art.

Artists Respond: American Art and the Vietnam War and Tiffany Chung: Vietnam, Past Is Prologue—two new exhibits at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in ...

In 1965, as military involvement in Vietnam escalated, the U.S. Army Chief of Military History oversaw the creation of a Vietnam combat art program that sent military and civilian volunteer ...

Galvanized by the moral urgency of the Vietnam War, these artists reimagined the goals and uses of art, affecting developments in multiple movements and media: painting, sculpture, printmaking ...

Unlike much Cold War-era Communist propaganda art, Vietnam’s was produced during active conflict, giving it a character, urgency and style all its own, believes Di San Marzano.

Vietnam veteran Galen A. Brown died five years ago, but his artwork still talks. “He spoke through his art,” says his friend and ex-wife, Kay Brown. “He didn’t speak through his normal ...

In Vietnam, every soldier, it seemed, had a Zippo. "I carried one," Desimone says. "I had it engraved." With the engravings Zippos became the one place soldiers could express themselves.

Still from Tuan Andrew Nguyen’s video “The Unburied Sounds of a Troubled Horizon” (2022) at the New Museum. Its main character, Nguyet, makes mobiles in the spirit of Alexander Calder from ...