Entertainment

A new venture promoted by a Harvard-educated business graduate providing a low-cost cinema experience is making many customers happy.

The Goethe Institute in HCMC said the Notos Quartet, the award winning piano quartet from Germany will perform a special concert in Ho Chi Minh City Conservatory of Music (112 Nguyen Du Street, District 1), on August 5.

Twelve artworks by eight renowned Vietnamese painters will be put up for auction on July 30 at the Chon Auction House.

An ongoing exhibtion at Việt Nam Fine Arts Museum take visitors back to the glorious years of national resistance through 50 artworks by different generations of Vietnamese artists.

American pop star Ariana Grande will perform for one night in HCM City on August 23 at the Quan Khu 7 Stadium.

A photo exhibition entitled “Buddhist Ruins and Heritage” is being held in Hanoi from July 17 to 28 by the Indian Cultural Center at the Embassy of India in Vietnam.

A new classical music programme will be staged twice a month in HCM City with the aim of attracting young people to the genre.

There are a few museums in HCM City that attract many tourists on a daily basis, including War Remnants Museum, Hồ Chí Minh Museum and the Fine Arts Museum, among others.

14 artists from Hai Phong City have opened a nude painting and sculpture exhibition entitled Phuong at Vietnam Fine Arts Museum in Hanoi.

More than 60 kite artists will take part in the Đà Nẵng kite festival on Mỹ Khê Beach in Sơn Trà district on July 15-16, according to the city’s Festival and Event Organising centre.

Vietnamese antiquities and art treasures with great historical and cultural value will be auctioned on August 19 in Hanoi, marking the first time a professional auction company authorised by the Hanoi People’s Committee to sell the country’s antiquities.

Gangnam Style, the quirky South Korean video that spawned a global dance craze and went so viral it nearly broke YouTube, has finally been dethroned as the most watched video.

The Vietnam Heritage Photo Awards 2017 on Monday (July 10) begins its sixth annual edition, with the aim of preserving Vietnam’s cultural values.

The skeleton of the last Java rhino in Vietnam is being displayed at the Cat Tien National Park in the southern province of Lam Dong.

The 3rd Vietnam International Fingerstyle Guitar Festival will be held in Hanoi and HCM City on July 18 & 19.

Eminent music teacher Nguyễn Vĩnh Bảo always hung a colloquial đàn ghi-ta phím lõm (sunken fret guitar, or lute with six strings), as a unique feature of Vietnamese music, among other traditional musical instruments.