Banksy’s home city is a canvas for elusive artist
Five years ago, British street artist Banksy adorned the side of a once uninspiring white brick building in Bristol with the familiar image of a girl gazing out solemnly.
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Thai artist dishes out communal curry at US’ Hirshhorn museum
Publication date 22 May 2019 | 11:26 | ICTRich or poor, liberal or conservative, from one corner of the globe to another, we all sit down to share a meal.
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A rite of passage: Reviving an ancient Khmer ceremony
Publication date 20 May 2019 | 10:20 | ICTThe traditional Chol Mlob ceremony celebrating a girl’s coming of age was once the norm in Cambodian culture.
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World’s indigenous peoples, the ‘guardians of nature’, under siege
Publication date 08 May 2019 | 15:15 | ICTFrom Amazon rainforests to the Arctic Circle, indigenous peoples are leveraging ancestral knowhow to protect habitats that have sustained them for hundreds and even thousands of years, according to a landmark UN assessment of biodiversity released on Monday.
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Modern sculpture meets ancient Greece on Delos
Publication date 08 May 2019 | 12:53 | ICTA stone's throw from the Greek island of Mykonos lies Delos, an uninhabited islet a world away from its neighbour’s glamorous nightlife.
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Khmer metal engraving artist wins recognition after decades
Publication date 29 April 2019 | 13:55 | ICTChea Yuthea is holding a small hammer and chiselling a detailed scene from Ramayana, the Sanskrit epic of ancient India, into a big metal bowl.
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Khmer New Year celebrated through music and dance
Publication date 10 April 2019 | 14:50 | ICTTHE First Khmer Music and Dance Festival 2019, which opened on April 2 in the Cuu Long (Mekong) River Delta province of Soc Trang, wrapped up on Tuesday.
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Iowa resident spreads Kingdom’s history, culture through digital art
Publication date 08 April 2019 | 11:19 | ICTGrowing up in poverty, Soun Vincent never had an opportunity to properly sharpen his talents through a formal art education.
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Flamboyant funeral sees off Myanmar monk in style
Publication date 05 April 2019 | 15:55 | ICTTHOUSANDS of devotees flocked to a mock palace of kaleidoscopic colours in Myanmar this week to dance, sing and pay their final respects at the lavish cremation of a local celebrity monk.
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Joint Neo-expressionism exhibition set to amaze art lovers in VN capital
Publication date 03 April 2019 | 14:00 | ICTThe works of five neo-expressionistic painters will be on display at a group exhibition opening in Hanoi on April 3.
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Picasso in Ivory Coast? A village tells of its brush with the artist
Publication date 01 April 2019 | 12:17 | ICT‘I’M SURE! I tell you, he came. I saw him!” insists Soro Navaghi, keen to extinguish any doubts about Picasso’s visit to a small Ivorian village famed for its painted textiles.
