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Hanoi (VNS/VNA) – The play Dieu Con Lai (Thing That Remains) about the life of the people and soldiers after the war is scheduled to be staged on May 29 at the Hanoi Opera House as an effort to bring cultural activities back to life. Meritorious Artist Nguyen Xuan Bac, vice director of the Vietnam Drama Theatre, said the artists are eager to perform again after the success of Benh Si (Egotism) by late playwright Luu Quang Vu on May 23. “As a response to the call of Minister of Culture,Sports and Tourism Nguyen Ngoc Thien, the theatre hosted the performance of Egotism. The play received much attention and encouragement from the State leaders and audiences, Chairwoman of the National Assembly Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan and Minister Thien also enjoyed the play,” said Bac. “While Egotism is a humorous play, Thing That Remains will move audiences as the life of people after the war was so hard and tragic, however they still attempted to … [Read more...] about Drama about post-war time staged

Soon after the dismal YouTube event, I realised that there are far more than just 10 slogans about contemporary life that would make no sense to someone from 1991: there were hundreds. So the Slogan Project grew as it began to enter the museums and galleries world. I also began delving into specific themes such as robotics for the Vitra Design Museum in Basel, ecology at Montreal’s Canadian Centre for Architecture, and the near future at the Shanghai Himalayas Museum. Last January, I did a series on sleep at Somerset House in London. … [Read more...] about Signs of the times: how Douglas Coupland’s art came to life under coronavirus

Holzer has long pointed to this connivance between culture and the tacit forces shaping society and how we think. Her stories of human agony are, after all, lit up using the same LED tech as the luminous billboards of Times Square. Blenheim is clearly a ripe environment for her to explore this theme, with its military origins and clout as a tourist attraction. In fact, its very existence today depends on our continued belief in the awesomeness of its heritage – hosting coachloads of visitors, producing mineral water, and leasing its grounds for weddings, along with other business enterprises. … [Read more...] about Softer: Jenny Holzer review – Blenheim Palace becomes a house of LED horrors

By 1913, she was painting again and her Electric Prism works – along with a frieze-like, four-metre-wide canvas depicting Le Bal Bollier – syncopated modern life. The dancers dance and your eye dances, too, caught up in the painting’s stop-start, relentless tango rhythms. That same year, she collaborated with Cendrars on the publication of a poem describing a trip from Moscow to Paris on the Trans-Siberian railway, in which Cendrars’s text is shifted this way and that by Delaunay’s colour. Her rhythmic, abstract images and patches of colour sway like the train, and give us flashes of the world hurtling by the windows. The whole thing is a delight. Typeset text and painted words vie with one another, and Delaunay used the optical effect of simultaneous contrast (by which the juxtaposition of different colours affects how we perceive them) with great energy, subtlety and vitality. She grasped the constant disruption and speed of modern life and gave it form. … [Read more...] about Sonia Delaunay review – the woman who made colour dance gets a knockout show