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Body and soul
Life, Apipar Norapoompipat, Published on 14/02/2019
» From Thursday until Feb 17, internationally acclaimed Silpathorn artist Pichet Klunchun and his Pichet Klunchun Dance Company will take over the 8th floor Main Gallery of the Bangkok Art and Culture Centre (BACC) to challenge the limitations of the human body and the surrounding physical space.
Bloody artists
Life, Apipar Norapoompipat, Published on 07/11/2018
» Hung on the walls of Sukhumvit 43's Galerie Oasis are oil paintings oozing with grief, melancholy and pain. There's a figure of a woman crucified on a giant cross with blood streaming out of her hands and genitalia; an angel with empty eye-sockets holding his bloody eyes in his hands; and Buddha standing on a bloody lotus with a skull instead of his usual serene face.
For art lovers and the books that bind them
Life, Apipar Norapoompipat, Published on 05/09/2018
» From Thursday until Sunday, you can get your hands on a diverse selection of contemporary art publications, as the annual Bangkok Art Book Fair returns for its second edition.
Who pays for art?
Life, Apipar Norapoompipat, Published on 02/07/2018
» Should museums be funded by the state or by private sponsors? The question looms large with the current problems at Bangkok Art and Culture Centre (BACC), the largest publicly-funded art gallery in the country -- and with the rise of many private galleries that seem to flourish with the burgeoning art scene.
Monochromatic masterpieces
Life, Apipar Norapoompipat, Published on 25/05/2018
» Crossing the Atlantic Ocean in treacherous waters during his enlistment in the US Navy, Ralph Gibson had an epiphany. He decided then and there, at 21 years old, that he was to become a photographer.
An Anglo-Isan mash-up
Life, Apipar Norapoompipat, Published on 29/06/2017
» There's always something enticing about traditional beats. It's something different from all the music played on the radio -- something authentic compared to all the boring, gentrified sounds. And that's what Will Robinson felt when he first heard the sound of a phin guitar many years ago on the streets of Sukhumvit.
Standing for something
Life, Apipar Norapoompipat, Published on 01/06/2017
» There is one thing you can always expect from Wit Pimkarnchanapong's works: the unexpected.
The life of paper
Life, Apipar Norapoompipat, Published on 24/05/2017
» As part of Siam Discovery's The Dream Maker project, in which designers, artists and craftsmen are invited to share their work and inspire the next generation of creatives, Object of Design Store (ODS) has joined hands with New York artist Craig Anczelowitz and Meiko Fujimori, dye-master from the 300-year-old Japanese paper-mill Awagami Factory, to launch "The Space Between: Artworks On Awagami Paper".
A rocking visit from Down Under
Life, Apipar Norapoompipat, Published on 16/03/2017
» Entertainment company Live Nation BEC-Tero has done it again. They've brought another indie giant for their Soundbox live-music series. The Temper Trap, an underrated Australian indie-rock band people may know as "that band that provided the soundtrack for 500 Days Of Summer", graced the stage of GMM Live House last Thursday to a full house of adoring fans.