Craft villages face a shortage of labour as young workers tend to leave their hometowns, seeking city jobs rather than staying and doing traditional work.

More than 150 paintings, graphic works, engraved works and sculptures by art students nationwide are on display at the HCM City Fine Arts Association.

Portraits of Hanoians by painter Lê Năng Hiển (1921-2014) are on display in an exhibition in Hà Nội.

For the first time, the Le Brothers (Lê Ngọc Thanh and Lê Đức Hải) will hold a joint art exhibition today combining sculpture arrangements with orchids at one of the most beautiful and largest houses in Hội An.

Having visited Việt Nam as a tourist, Ando Saeko, a Japanese woman spent one month in HCM City before traveling to Hà Nội for deeper exploring Vietnamese culture and people.

A village that was once famous for making statues is now famous for making busts. These are statues of only people’s heads. A villager is able to make a perfect bust from looking at a photograph.

An art exhibition of 259 paintings, graphic art works and sculptures has opened at the HCM City Fine Arts Museum as part of the city’s celebrations of the 73rd National Day, which falls on September 2. 

Bảo Hà Village in Đồng Minh Commune, Vĩnh Bảo District in Hải Phòng City, has been famous for the local craft of carving wooden statues for over 500 years. Local craftspeople have recently started also carving busts of people from portraits.

The exhibition, Lacquerware – From Inspiration to Reality, shows the unique shapes, splendid colours and decorative patterns symbolising Eastern culture created by Hanoia.

When young Romanian artist Sergiu Moise told people that he has mixed blood, half Vietnamese and half Romanian, most people believe him, because he speaks Vietnamese language like a local, lacking the foreign accent that most foreigners have when they speak.