"Le Maitre des marionnettes" (The Master of water puppetry), a Vietnamese traditional water puppetry play, will debut at the Quai Branly Museum in Paris on February 10. This program is directed by Dominique Pitoiset, the director of Bordeaux National Theatre, in cooperation with the Vietnamese national water puppetry theatre. Water puppetry is a distinctive [...]
LookAtVietnam – An exhibition of photos of ethnic minority gongs in the Central Highlands will be opened at the Hanoi-based Vietnam Ethnology Museum on November 6. The Vietnam Cultural and Art Institute and the Vietnam Ethnology Museum have chosen nearly 90 photos from the archive of France’s French School of the Far East, the [...]
Figurines presented at the “Tarzan” exhibition at the Quai Branly museum in Paris, held until September 27, 2009 Jungle savior, noble savage, or green superhero? Tarzan’s many mythical faces come under the microscope at a Paris show complete with sounds of the forest, and the hero’s distinctive cry. Tarzan’s ululating call made famous by 1930s [...]
