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Life, Tatat Bunnag, Published on 26/08/2021
» Although their third and long-awaited album Blue Weekend is finally out and getting rave reviews from critics and fans, UK alt-rock quartet Wolf Alice said it wasn't their plan to take four years to release a new record after Visions Of A Life in 2017 won the Mercury Prize.
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.
'Nomadland' wins big at pandemic Oscars as Zhao makes history
Published on 26/04/2021
» HOLLYWOOD: US road movie "Nomadland" emerged as the big winner at the Oscars on Sunday with three major prizes, including a history-making award for director Chloe Zhao, as Hollywood celebrated its most glamorous night with a unique pandemic-era gala.
Magic and war
Guru, Eric E Surbano, Published on 02/04/2021
» A war-ravaged kingdom on the brink of falling apart is the setting for Netflix's upcoming series, Shadow And Bone. Adapted from a series of books that have been dubbed as "The Grishaverse" written by Leigh Bardugo, the series centres around a young woman named Alina Starkov, who discovers she has powers, making her part of an elite group of people known as the Grisha.
Exploring our own past
Life, Suwitcha Chaiyong, Published on 17/03/2021
» A boy walks towards the trees and asks them a history question. The trees do not answer him. Then, the boy sees two trees running back to their game world and he follows them, and so his journey begins.
To be a believer
Life, Suwitcha Chaiyong, Published on 03/02/2021
» People have different beliefs about sacredness and life after death. A group exhibition "The Sacred Now" by three artists -- Jennarong Khaemadan, Kespada Moonsuwan and Pathomkron Treethep -- raises questions around these subjects and expresses their perspectives through painting, sculpture and installation.
Exposing the bad boy tycoons of India
Life, Yvonne Bohwongprasert, Published on 23/10/2020
» Despite an earnest effort by Netflix's docuseries Bad Boy Billionaires: India to document the rise and fall of men behind financial deceit such as Vijay Mallya, Nirav Modi and Subrata Roy -- best described as a bunch of "has-beens" whose amoral behaviour eventually led to their fall from grace -- it does little to shed new evidence about their cases.
South Korea wants the world to learn Korean with K-pop
Published on 12/10/2020
» Riding on the global popularity of South Korean pop, Seoul plans a rapid expansion of government-run "King Sejong Institutes" around the world to promote the Korean language and culture.
Stories that transcend time
Life, Published on 28/07/2020
» After being closed for two months due to Covid-19, the Bangkok Art and Culture Centre (BACC) is resuming operations by travelling back in time to the mid-19th century when glass plate negatives made their way to Siam.
At the crossroads of justice and virtue
Life, Chris Baker, Published on 10/07/2020
» The judiciary is the least studied element of the Thai polity. That did not matter much 25 years ago because it played almost no political role. But now the courts bring down governments, exile leaders, dissolve political parties, punish protesters and jail people for thought crimes. This book is long awaited and does not disappoint.