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Myth, love and blind earthworms
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 09/11/2015
» Veeraporn Nitiprapha's debut novel, which has just won this year's SEA Write Award, is ultimately a trap. Read it, and if you are totally into the world this author has created, then you are, as the book's title suggests, a Blind Earthworm In A Labyrinth (Saiduan Tabod Nai Khaowongkot).
A monthly column rounding up the best of the capita l’s art scene
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 30/09/2015
» Art Matters begins with a gentle reminder that "Rediscovering Forgotten Thai Masters Of Photography" -- a black-and-white optic feast comprised of works by seven Thai photographers -- continues at Bangkok University Gallery until the end of Oct and is not to be missed.
Worlds apart
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 17/06/2015
» A church turned into a mosque, and later shut down. A bottle of tequila and a wood-carved Christ hung on a windowpane. A pink pool brimming at neck level, threatening to flood over. And, of course, a massive yellow phallus named after Argentinian football legend Diego Maradona.
A monthly column rounding up the best of the capital's art scene
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 25/03/2015
» It's a real shame that works by Dutch artist Daan Botlek in "Inhabited Hypercube" were only displayed for a week at Cho Why gallery in Chinatown. Yet, that was a happy sign that curator Myrtille Tibayrenc's Toot Yung Gallery, who organised the exhibition as their first nomad project after her space closed down in Ekamai last year, is very much alive and doing rather well.
UFO: Things we think we know
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 10/09/2014
» Spectacles currently to be seen in the art gallery above WTF, the cafe/restaurant on Sukhumvit Soi 51, include a 10 baht coin in perpetual motion, a chair balanced on the blade of a knife and a whole row of leaning chairs propped up by a single pencil.