January 17, 2012
More than 500 tourist boats in Ha Long Bay will be decorated with white details instead of being repainted white totally to “renovate” the site’s tourism sector, the VnExpress newswire quoted a local official as saying Saturday. Vu Thi Thu Thuy, vice chairwoman of the People’s Committee in the northern province of Quang Ninh [...]
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August 15, 2011
A set of wall paintings by young graffiti artists has inspired a conversation about art, culture and the changing times in a HCMC neighborhood. One of the half-length portrait murals portraying a member of the Click9 project The area around this old Pho Shop will never be the same. Pho Dau, one of Ho [...]
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September 27, 2009
LookAtVietnam – The Hue traditional enamelling industry has a great potential to develop. Its recovery would help restore royal relics and develop local fine arts and tourism. LookAtVietnam – The Hue traditional enamelling industry has a great potential to develop. Its recovery would help restore royal relics and develop local fine arts and tourism.Standing tall [...]
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July 23, 2009
LookAtVietnam – A sophisticated fresco featuring five dragons looming in a cloud burst, which is recognised by the Viet Nam Guinness Book as the “oldest and biggest fresco in Viet Nam”, is being threatened by mould and dampness. Mouldy oldy: The oldest and biggest fresco in Viet Nam, Dragons Unite with Clouds, is being threatened [...]
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April 14, 2009
“Happy Family” by Ha Manh Thang.LookAtVietnam – Two new galleries have opened in Hanoi, Bui Gallery and 25 Studio. They are both contemporary art galleries but they are very different from each other. Bui Gallery, inaugurated on April 7 at 23 Ngo Van So street, stated it was “a new art gallery, a commercial gallery to [...]
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April 13, 2009
Reputed painter Le Thiet Cuong and painter, art researcher Phan Cam Thuong shared their viewpoints about the way historical and cultural relics have been “restored” in the last two decades. Arhat statues, masterpieces at Tram Gian Pagoda in Chuong My district, Hanoi, were re-painted colourfully. Le Thiet Cuong: The larger relics are, the more they are [...]
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March 31, 2009
Restoration of historical and cultural relics in Vietnam is now going at a fast clip. Individuals and organisations are voluntarily contributing money to re-paint ancient statues and repair temples and pagodas as a way to show their reverence to deities, but⦠Phan Cam Thuong stands behind the ancient colossal statue guarding the main gate of [...]
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February 4, 2009
Doi Son in Duy Tien district, Ha Nam province, has been very famous for its drums. It is now becoming known for a special art: painted buffaloes. After these “paintings” are finished, they can walk, run and plough fields. These buffaloes are about to become mobile paintings. Painters are preparing brushes and water colours.Starting from the [...]
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Ha Long Bay boats do not have to be painted wholly white: authorities
More than 500 tourist boats in Ha Long Bay will be decorated with white details instead of being repainted white totally to “renovate” the site’s tourism sector, the VnExpress newswire quoted a local official as saying Saturday. Vu Thi Thu Thuy, vice chairwoman of the People’s Committee in the northern province of Quang Ninh [...]
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