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High hopes
Muse, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 07/05/2016
» As a kid, rather than wanting to spend a day at Disneyland, Sutima Sucharitakul begged her parents to take her to museums -- a request they gladly granted. So it was places like the British Museum and the Victoria and Albert that they would visit when in London, the Palace of Versailles when in France, or churches and synagogues when in other European countries.
The sex ceiling
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 16/09/2015
» Bussaraporn Thongchai believes it would have been completely different if her paintings were displayed, say, by the fountain display at Parc Paragon. She's probably right. The main subject of her ongoing exhibition "I'm Not Your Holy Mother" at Ardel's Third Place Gallery is an old and haggard, yet sexually unrestrained version of the mother of Jesus, the Virgin Mary. One piece shows an up-skirt shot of a woman squatting, while the other shows a woman hung upside down on a crucifix, her wrinkled body and breasts weighed down.
Southern discomfort
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 19/08/2015
» The artist known as "Darkle" is showing his black and white photographs in an exhibition entitled "The Beautiful South: The Ugly Truth" at Quince -- Eatery & Bar as part of the ongoing Photo Bangkok 2015 exhibition. Darkle is simultaneously looking at and looking away from the conflict and violence in the southernmost provinces of Thailand.
Yearning for lost dreams
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 10/06/2015
» With shots of a shocking eyesore of a pink sofa, a rundown back room in what appears to be a cheap bar, and a group of scantily-clad young women under gaudy neon lights, British-Thai photographer Cattleya Jaruthavee infuses Kathmandu Photo Gallery with a sense of lost youth and impossible yearnings in her solo exhibition "Paused Dreams".
Turning heads
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 16/04/2014
» Chon Buri-based British artist Thomas Donaldson’s debut solo exhibition is all about facial expressions. With a few exceptions of torso nudes, most of the collection are portraits of women whose expressions are portrayed by smudges and smears of paint.
Drawing the readers in
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 25/11/2013
» Reviewing the 16th Singapore Writers Festival on my return to Bangkok, it struck me that it would probably be more appropriate to call what went down in the city-state earlier this month a forum for authors and fans of thought-provoking literature.
The 'Empress' of Chinese nonfiction
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 18/11/2013
» For Chinese-born British author Jung Chang, having her books scanned and downloaded illegally is something that's very "encouraging". At least in China, that is, where two of her books, Wild Swans and Mao: The Unknown Story, are banned. Her latest book, Empress Dowager Cixi, a biography of a woman who unofficially controlled the China's Manchu Qing Dynasty for 47 years from 1861 until her death in 1908, is pending publication in the country, a situation for which she doesn't "hold up very high hopes".