Diem Phung Thi Art Museum

About this audio guide

This guide to the Diem Phung Thi Art Museum in Hue follows the unlikely path of the sculptor it is named for, a Hue-born dentist who spent a decade in a Paris dental practice before picking up clay near the age of forty. It traces her training under sculptor Antoniucci Volti, the modular system critics called her alphabet, and the nearly four hundred works she chose to send home rather than sell abroad. Listen for how a handful of simple shapes came to fill an entire colonial-era villa.