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What drives me is the impact of what I’m building here. The fight is hard—it’s a struggle every day, in so many different ...
"We cannot allow beauty pageants to be swept into a competitive environment like goods at a marketplace. They must be curated ...
Since national reunification in 1975, Hanoi’s stage art has achieved remarkable accomplishments and left a profound mark on ...
An international conference opened in Hanoi on June 24 honouring the Vietnam University of Fine Arts (VNUFA)'s 100th anniversary of development and its contributions to developing the modern fine arts ...
Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The trick, when crossing the road in Hanoi, is to avoid sudden movements or pauses. At the same time, total ...
Vietnam and the Art of Choosing Far from “refusing to choose” in its foreign relations, the country has been canny at deciding when – and where – to partner with more powerful countries.
Shock and sorrow has poured out from Asia’s art community over the death on 6 April of the Vietnamese-American multimedia artist Dinh Q. Lê at the age of 56. “Dinh Q. Lê was not only a great ...
Vietnam artist in race to ensure 'heroic mothers' not forgotten The 75-year-old has painted the portraits of 2,765 of the women, who are part of a group known in Vietnam as "heroic mothers", in ...
Vietnam is withdrawing from the Barbie World. The upcoming "Barbie" movie from Warner Bros. has been banned in Vietnam due to a scene with a map showing territory in the South China Sea that China ...
HANOI: The art of tuong (classical drama) has been revered throughout the country for centuries, with many of its most famous actors and actresses hailing from the beautiful central province of ...