“WE’LL never find out what the real story was,” Nguyen Qui Duc said. In Vietnam, he explains, you never learn the real story in situations like this. Exactly one month ago, the day before I spoke with Mr Duc, city authorities had closed down Tadioto, his gallery-bar-and-performance space, along with the 60-odd other studios, galleries, boutiques, restaurants and nightclubs that made up the arts district known as Zone 9. Were the reasons political, bureaucratic, or something else entirely?
