100 southern glass paintings on display Since 1957, this is the first time that glass paintings - the unique folk painting art of the South – are introduced in a major exhibition. Many collectors like Tam Ly, Nguyen Anh Kiet, Nguyen Dai Phuc, Huynh Duy Thiet, Huynh Thanh Binh... contributed unique artworks for the exhibition "Glass Paintings of the South 2013." This event gathers about 100 typical art works from 1,600 works in private collections. These glass paintings are of many kinds, from ancestral paintings to decorative paintings, landscapes, blessed pictures and paintings of gods, Buddhas and Bodhisattvas... The exhibition takes place from August 18 to 21 at Phat Hoc Xa Loi Temple in District 3, HCM City. According to researchers, the latest glass painting exhibition in Vietnam was held by Mr. Truong Cung Vinh in 1957 in Saigon. Since then, not a glass painting exhibition had been held until the ongoing event. However, this art form has existed and flourished, creating glass paintings genres in localities, such as Lai Thieu, Go Cong, My Tho (Tien Giang province), Cho Moi (An Giang province), and the Khmer glass paintings in Tra Vinh and Soc Trang. In the past over 100 years, glass paintings have met the needs and beliefs of public art throughout the villages from southeast to southwest provinces and become the most popular family artworks. Paintings on glass appeared in Hue city from the reigns of Kings Minh Mang and Thieu Tri but they were imported products. Until the early 20th century, the Cantonese immigrants who settled in Cho Lon, Saigon, began to open glass and glass painting shops. In the 1920s, glass painting making job moved from Saigon to Lai Thieu. Special characteristics of the Southern glass paintings are that the topics are changed in regions, so in watching glass paintings, one can imagine the culture of different regions. Some glass paintings displayed at the exhibition: VietNamNet Bridge, T. Van