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    What's trending and happening this week

    Muse, Apipar Norapoompipat, Published on 24/03/2018

    » 1:Galerie Oasis Bangkok's newest art venue, located above Cinema Oasis (Sukhumvit 43) will be launching today with Piyatat Hemmatat's Eden Part II: An Exhibition Of Bronze Sculptures & Photographs. In continuation of "Eden, Part I", in Charoen Krung's Serindia Gallery, the photographer and contemporary artist explores the concept and idea of banned substances through 3D bronze sculptures. Recreating his own Garden of Eden, Piyatat has moulded Biblical serpents that turn into enticing hands and eyeballs, sprouting serpent hearts, and many more creatures that comprise the mythology of this era. "Eden Part II" will launch today, from 6pm-9pm, at Galerie Oasis, Sukhumvit 43. For more information, go to facebook.com/galerieoasis.bk.

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    Hip in a Hawaiian

    Life, Apipar Norapoompipat, Published on 13/04/2018

    » Songkran fashion has never been inspiring. With water being thrown, splashed and shot at you from every direction, and with powder melting and seeping into every nook and cranny of your clothes and body, dressing well and looking good are never our midsummer priority.

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    Calling all photography hopefuls

    Life, Apipar Norapoompipat, Published on 04/07/2018

    » Every passionate photographer has embarked on a long-term project once in her lifetime. It's not an easy task -- to find an interest and stay committed to it for months and years at a time. But through all the research, frustration, doubt, and hundreds of thousands of photographs taken, there's nothing more rewarding than finally seeing your total body of work take shape.

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    Black pride

    Life, Apipar Norapoompipat, Published on 27/03/2019

    » The savoury aroma of jambalaya, jerk chicken and corn bread filled the century-old chambers of Bangkok's US Ambassador's Residence recently. The dining room of African-American expats waiting for the feast listened intently to Joanne Hyppolite, a Haitian-American curator from the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC). Hyppolite, who's an expert in African-American and African-diaspora material and expressive culture, was explaining how these famous African-American dishes came to be.

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    Subverting the system

    Life, Apipar Norapoompipat, Published on 09/01/2019

    » If Miguel Januario had been born in Thailand, he probably would have been arrested or sent to a "re-education camp" by now. Through his 14-year ongoing artistic project "±MaisMenos±" (More-Less), the Portuguese artist creates scathing political and social criticisms through illegal public art interventions, sculptural installations, paintings and performances branded with his minimal logo of a plus and minus sign.

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    A return to form

    Life, Apipar Norapoompipat, Published on 20/12/2018

    » The word "minimalism" nowadays is rarely associated with the groundbreaking art movement of the early 1960s, which eventually reshaped the art world, pop-culture and people's way of living. Today, it's mostly associated with architecture, interior design and the fast-growing movement of living a decluttered, material-free life.

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    Street art revitalises Old Town

    Life, Apipar Norapoompipat, Published on 12/10/2018

    » The streets of Bangkok's Old Town just got a lot more colourful as the Pipit Bang Lamphu Street Art event launches on Friday, lasting until the very end of this year.

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    The new face of art in Thailand

    Life, Apipar Norapoompipat, Published on 22/10/2018

    » Friday marked the official launch of Thailand's premiere Bangkok Art Biennale (BAB). It's been a long time coming, but for those in the dark, a biennale, in the art world, is a large-scale international contemporary art exhibition that takes place every two years in major art hubs around the world. Artworks by both renowned artists and rising stars are scattered throughout the city, adding vibrancy and sparking profound discussions about art and culture for a period of a few months.

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    Masters of puppets

    Life, Apipar Norapoompipat, Published on 22/08/2018

    » To the younger generation of Southeast Asia, shadow puppetry may seem like a bygone form of entertainment. Held outdoors at night in temple compounds, rice fields or the royal court, the performance traditionally unfolds behind a stretch of white cloth illuminated by oil lamps. Puppet masters manipulate the intricate and painstakingly handcrafted puppets to local music, narrating and acting stories from the Ramayana or the Mahabharata epics peppered with improvisation in between. A shadow theatre performance, in some cases, can last up to seven hours long.

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    A history of the defeated

    Life, Apipar Norapoompipat, Published on 25/07/2018

    » According to every state-approved history book, the unification of Siam in the late 19th to early 20th century was smooth and trouble-free. The tribunal city states, which had a substantial degree of autonomy for centuries, all seemed to abdicate their power willingly and accept the new, centralised system to avoid the spread of European colonisation.

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