Arts & Culture, Phnom Penh Post

Banksy’s home city is a canvas for elusive artist

Publication date 22 May 2019 | 15:01 | ICT

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 | ICT

Rich or poor, liberal or conservative, from one corner of the globe to another, we all sit down to share a meal.
A rite of passage: Reviving an ancient Khmer ceremony

Publication date 20 May 2019 | 10:20 | ICT

The traditional Chol Mlob ceremony celebrating a girl’s coming of age was once the norm in Cambodian culture.
World’s indigenous peoples, the ‘guardians of nature’, under siege

Publication date 08 May 2019 | 15:15 | ICT

From 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.
Modern sculpture meets ancient Greece on Delos

Publication date 08 May 2019 | 12:53 | ICT

A stone's throw from the Greek island of Mykonos lies Delos, an uninhabited islet a world away from its neighbour’s glamorous nightlife.
Khmer metal engraving artist wins recognition after decades

Publication date 29 April 2019 | 13:55 | ICT

Chea Yuthea is holding a small hammer and chiselling a detailed scene from Ramayana, the Sanskrit epic of ancient India, into a big metal bowl.
Khmer New Year celebrated through music and dance

Publication date 10 April 2019 | 14:50 | ICT

THE 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.
Iowa resident spreads Kingdom’s history, culture through digital art

Publication date 08 April 2019 | 11:19 | ICT

Growing up in poverty, Soun Vincent never had an opportunity to properly sharpen his talents through a formal art education.
Flamboyant funeral sees off Myanmar monk in style

Publication date 05 April 2019 | 15:55 | ICT

THOUSANDS 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.
Joint Neo-expressionism exhibition set to amaze art lovers in VN capital

Publication date 03 April 2019 | 14:00 | ICT

The works of five neo-expressionistic painters will be on display at a group exhibition opening in Hanoi on April 3.
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.