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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.
Morals & immortals
Guru, Eric E Surbano, Published on 03/07/2020
» The prospect of being immortal may seem like a good idea at first, but the immortals of Netflix's new film, The Old Guard, are dealing with hundreds -- some even thousands -- of years' worth of baggage while being hunted down. Based on the graphic novel of the same name, the film follows Andromache of Scythia aka Andy and her group of immortal mercenaries, who have been doing assignments all throughout history but managing to keep their existence unknown. That is, until Copley and Merrick show up, an ex-CIA agent and a pharma company CEO who wants to capture them because they may have the genetic key that will provide a solution to the world's sicknesses. Guru spoke to Chiwetel Ejiofor, who plays Copley; Harry Melling, who plays Merrick; and the three immortal mercenaries: Marwan Kenzari, Matthias Schoenaerts and Luca Marinelli.
Grace, beauty from the RBSO
Life, Published on 14/04/2020
» An essential part of the life of any healthy, growing symphony orchestra are the eagerly anticipated visits of various different guest conductors, in order to provide artistic variety and to complement the ongoing work and development executed by an ensemble's incumbent music director. An example of what a positive effect this can have was provided recently at the Thailand Cultural Centre, when German conductor Golo Berg had his first collaboration with the Royal Bangkok Symphony Orchestra, providing expert accompaniment for Thai piano soloist Natnaree Suwanpotipra in Grieg's Piano Concerto In A Minor, and demonstrating masterly control of structure in the expansive canvas of Brahms' Symphony No.3 In F Major.
Scaling new heights
Life, Amitha Amranand, Published on 26/03/2020
» Although Bangkok is not a musical theatre town the way New York City and London are, the appetite for musicals here is not small.
Wild style
Life, Suwitcha Chaiyong, Published on 23/03/2020
» The human body has an incredible design. Female natural body lines, gorgeous shapes and aesthetic forms have been brought into classic and elegant visuals by exceptional photographer Sylvie Blum at the photo exhibition "Naked Beauty" at the Museum of Contemporary Art (Moca Bangkok). This is the first exhibition in Asia that displays more than 100 images taken by Blum, including original prints from her "Naked Beauty Series", her world-famous "Big Cat Series" and her "Animal Series" as well as 200 images showing her very own diary over the past 20 years.
A royal treasure
Life, Published on 24/02/2020
» The Queen Sirikit Museum of Textiles is travelling back in time to when King Chulalongkorn fell in love with Javanese culture during his visits to Indonesia and brought home 307 of the finest batiks as keepsakes.
Faculties of art
Life, Suwitcha Chaiyong, Published on 19/02/2020
» The atmosphere at the University of the Thai Chamber of Commerce (UTCC) has been more captivating than usual since it started running two parallel art exhibitions. "Lingering Reverie" and "Sufficient (Perfection)" both began last month as part of the launch of the university's School of Digital Arts and Design.
Indie rock done right
B Magazine, Chanun Poomsawai, Published on 09/02/2020
» "When I was 18/ Someone got stabbed in a church/ But I got used to it/ And forgave all the ways and the names/ It was so long ago, anyways," vocalist Jeremy Gaudet recounts on Murder In The Cathedral, the opening track to Kiwi Jr.'s debut album, Football Money. The vivid songwriting, buoyed by his bandmates' jangly instrumentation, is delivered with the kind of drawl that would have you thinking fondly of Pavement's Stephen Malkmus and The Strokes as well as the Modern Lovers' Jonathan Richman and Parquet Courts' Andrew Savage.
Bigger than the Sun
Life, Published on 02/01/2020
» To raise awareness on alternative energy, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre (BACC) has joined hands with the Office of Energy Regulatory Commission to demonstrate lighting installations in the "Jaras Light Fest", which uses solar cells as its energy sources. Located on the 1st and 3rd floors of the BACC, the 11 installations and artworks by four invited artists and eight open-call artists have impressed visitors with a variety of designs and multicoloured lights. The solar panels of artworks have stored energy from the Sun during daytime. As a result, the exhibition is illuminated at night. Before creating their works, artists received a crash course in how solar cells work, so they had ideas on how to apply solar energy to their artworks.