Culture

The Organizing Committee of the third fine art photo contest “Hue - new angles” 2017 has just announced the prize winners. It is expected that the awards ceremony will be held on September 13 at the Ho Chi Minh Museum with 1 first prize, 2 second prizes, 3 third prizes and 5 consolation prizes.

During the opening ceremony, the Arts Council of Vietnam Fine Arts Association highly appreciated the creative achievements of the artists in the Southern Central – Central Highlands and 3 provinces in the North of Central Vietnam.

The program of “Vong Co do" ("Nostalgia for the Ancient Capital") will be organized by the family of musician Trinh Cong Son and poet Nguyen Duy on the evening of September 26 at Hue University.

Researcher and translator Buu Y affirmed that the preservation and promotion of Hue cultural identity was the mission for no other than the young generation, as they were the future owners.

Ten Hue folk songs by Vo Que along with ten paintings by Dang Mau Triet through the presentation of Le Huynh Lam build up a lively “Harmony”, so as to honor Hue culture...

Recently, museums and art centers in Hue, which are collectively known as museum, have changed a lot in their way of organizing activities and display solutions to “break the passive situations” of waiting for guests, and they initially got positive signs. Yet more solutions need acquiring to make related units operate more effectively.

During lunch, my teacher said she would make lotus seed cakes for the guest reception on the day of the book launch. This is the kind of cake that she has loved the most ever since childhood because it is beautiful and delicious.

Any tourism product that is detached from local residents would fail. It is the local people with their lifestyles and their activities, who create attractive, sustainable vitality for tourism products...

More than 30 Noi Phu – Khanh Xuan porcelain pieces of all kinds, sizes, decoration themes, and marks, owned by three young Ha Noi collectors, are excellent representatives ...

Passionate about silk paintings, the young painter Le Thi Hai is one of the few painters in Hue who pursue the line of traditional paintings that require much effort and time to create.

With the passion and desire to restore the traditional mirror paintings of Hue, young artist Duong Van Kinh has explored the techniques of mirror painting and created unique decorative mirror paintings.

On March 10th, 2017, an Evaluation Panel was established to buy art works for the upcoming foundation of Hue Museum of Fine Arts. The Panel has promulgated selection criteria and confirmed that this year, one billion VND will be invested to collect paintings by four well-known artists: Ton That Dao, Dinh Cuong, Buu Chi, Vinh Phoi and some other artists.

Some people expressed their regrets; if only some rich people like Mr. Lam, Mr. Vuong, invest a lot of money, surely Bach Ma will be crowded and turned into a machine printing money like Ba Na, Fansipan ...

Thua Thien Hue Museum of History is displaying a dug-out canoe 9.4m in length, with a perimeter of 1.44m and is 0.4m wide and 5 to 6cm thick.

Le Ba Dang Arts Center and Diem Phung Thi Museum have co-ordinated with Vietnam Fine Arts Association in Hue to open the exhibition “Autumn’s colors 2017”.