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Les sculptures d’Ha My Nguyen à la foire Asia Now. © Photo by Nancy Karam courtesy of Galerie Bao.
Asia Now Is a Paris Art Fair, Festival, and Incubator
PARIS — “Go ahead, feel them!” gallerist Lê Thiên-Bảo encouraged visitors to her booth at Asia Now fair. Emboldened by her enthusiasm, I broke the well-worn rule of not touching artworks and caressed the fleshy ceramics of Vietnamese artist Hà My Nguyễn. Inside the grand halls of La Monnaie de Paris, just steps from the Louvre, the fair’s mood remained undisturbed by the museum’s recent brazen heist, which has shaken the country. The crowd — international, multicultural, and sharply focused — reinforced the fair’s boutique reputation…
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