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Free speech or hate speech? Netflix at eye of LGBTQ storm
AFP, Published on 17/10/2021
» LOS ANGELES: Netflix has been plunged into America's culture wars by a Dave Chappelle comedy special that raises concerns about free speech and censorship but has been slammed by its own employees as transphobic.
A one-off masquerading as a series
Life, Yvonne Bohwongprasert, Published on 10/09/2021
» Netflix's recently released Clickbait is a character-based psychological thriller that unfolds in eight episodes, narrating the story from the perspective of the show's characters while keeping the storyline moving.
Finding inspiration in cyberspace
Life, Suwitcha Chaiyong, Published on 04/08/2021
» The large role technology plays in society is reflected in the number of gadgets people are dependent on. In the art industry, not only is technology used as a tool for artistic creation, it also triggers inspiration.
The blockchain disruption
Life, Suwitcha Chaiyong, Published on 21/07/2021
» Last March, Christie's organised an auction of a collage of 5,000 digital images titled Everydays: The First 5000 Days by digital artist Mike Winkelmann, aka Beeple. The digital art piece sold for US$69 million (2.2 billion baht).
BTS’ 'Butter' sets new record by topping Billboard Hot 100 for sixth week
Published on 07/07/2021
» SEOUL: The journey by BTS is undone as it achieved yet another milestone in the history of K-pop with its new single “Butter” retaining at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 for the sixth consecutive week.
Artist highlights the scourge of plastic pollution
Life, Published on 07/07/2021
» Plastic pollution is one of the most crucial issues the planet is facing. However, many people don't take it seriously, thinking that plastic is recyclable. The fact is we can't store, maintain or recycle all our stuff and plastic that isn't recycled gets partially washed into the ocean.
Reimagining a better tomorrow
Life, Pattarawadee Saengmanee, Published on 23/06/2021
» Despite the rough start to its fourth edition, Bangkok Design Week 2021 managed to rearrange its schedule last month by offering several online talks which allowed visitors to participate from home and drew 100,000 visitors to its site.
Master of digital
Life, Suwitcha Chaiyong, Published on 16/06/2021
» Last year, while Thais were in their first lockdown due to Covid-19, artist Jarasporn Chumsri was ecstatic to discover Google Arts & Culture at artsandculture.google.com, which allows internet users to visit virtual museums around the world.
The art of storytelling
Life, Suwitcha Chaiyong, Published on 02/06/2021
» A curator is a key person who works behind the scenes to organise an art exhibition for the public. In order to find new curators, SAC Gallery launched the project "Star! Art Curator" last year to provide opportunities to aspiring curators to work with SAC Gallery's professional crew.
Contemporary mediocrities
Life, Apinan Poshyananda, Published on 03/05/2021
» At the recent ribbon-cutting ceremony of the Office of Contemporary Art and Culture's (OCAC) Art Collection in the spacious art hall on Ratchadamnoen Avenue, a group of ageing male artists covered in sanitary masks surrounded the director of OCAC, Vimolluck Chuchart, who gave a self-congratulatory speech. She proudly announced that the public will be able to view for the first time the national collection of the Ministry of Culture's contemporary Thai art. Beside these elderlies stood a white giant fibreglass sculpture by Sutee Kunavichyanont in Thai military uniform wearing a helmet with a rifle erect. Sutee's Equality; Thai Soldier (2016) is inspired by the cultural mandates between 1939 and 1942 during the premiere of Phibul Songkhram that aimed to uplift the national spirit and moral code of the nation and instil progressive tendencies and newness into Thai life.