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Buy art to help BACC raise funds and survive
Life, Published on 22/06/2021
» More than a hundred contemporary artworks by 58 Thai artists are on display during "People To People", which is running at the Main Gallery, 9th floor of Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, Pathumwan intersection, until July 18.
A young girl spreads her wings
Life, Tatat Bunnag, Published on 18/06/2021
» 'Did you know this is huge? It doesn't happen every day. You just gave these kids their first board," says a character in Manjari Makijany's Skater Girl. With what happens in Khempur, a small village in Rajasthan, the skateboard isn't just a toy, it is a symbol of freedom and liberation from having to follow the same endless cycle of unspoken norms.
Bangkok in full bloom
Life, Noko, Published on 18/06/2021
» Last year, Alexandre Benjamin Navet began transforming Van Cleef & Arpels' boutiques in various cities around the world. The French multi-disciplinary artist has reinterpreted a floral theme for a blooming pop-up boutique in Bangkok.
Emerging from a year of illness and isolation
Life, Suwitcha Chaiyong, Published on 09/06/2021
» In a quiet and gloomy world, a girl walks alone on empty and winding roads. The girl is a character in the paintings Alone1 and Alone2 from the Covid-19 pandemic-inspired collection "Linetopia" by Apiwat Bunler. Periods of stay-at-home and self-isolation had a strong impact on independent artist Apiwat, who also bartends in his own bar, Barley, where he meets many people.
Melancholy and absurdity
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 14/05/2021
» Chaitanya Tamhane was 27 years old when his breakthrough film Court became a critical sensation and won the Lion of the Future Award at the Venice festival in 2014. A film of understated power about India's Kafkaesque judicial tribulation, Court announced the arrival of an exceptional talent from Mumbai, a proud cinema city usually associated with rambunctious Bollywood titles.
Explore big ideas through digital art
Life, Published on 13/05/2021
» A selection of outstanding digital art creations from the inaugural "Julius Baer Next Generation Art Prize" are displayed in a virtual exhibition open for public viewing until June 30.
Attenborough explains all
Life, Yvonne Bohwongprasert, Published on 07/05/2021
» It is the colourful peacock mantis shrimp, which has a versatile set of rotating eyes and an ancestry stretching back 400 million years, that calls the seabed its home along with a string of eye-catching residents that the audience is introduced to in Netflix's latest docuseries Life In Colour with David Attenborough.
Painting for the love of home
Life, Yvonne Bohwongprasert, Published on 05/05/2021
» Experiences can play a profound role in how we navigate the direction of our life.
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.
Reflections of local culture
Life, Suwitcha Chaiyong, Published on 28/04/2021
» When artist Raweepon Pradit visited Hat Yai in Songkhla — his hometown — an antique white pagoda with scaffolding around it caught his eyes. After hearing that the pagoda was too old to repair, Raweepon captured some aesthetic angles with his camera. The artist felt that the beauty of the pagoda, which was surrounded by metal poles, was extraordinary so he decided to take photos of it before it degenerated further. A photo of the pagoda was later developed into the artwork Structure, which is part of his latest collection titled “Memo Fascination” on display at Bangkok Art and Culture Centre (BACC) and also online.