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Art history
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 02/03/2017
» Montien Boonma, one of Thailand's most significant contemporary artists, died almost 17 years ago. The last time we had a proper glimpse of his art was in 2013 with "[Montien Boonma]: Unbuilt/Rare Works", a show by the Jim Thompson Art Centre and the Thai Art Archives in which his personal collection of documents, sketchbooks, notebooks, printed matter, photographs and video footage along with other related materials were put on display.
Curses, solitude and desire
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 11/09/2014
» As soon as the rain stops, the nightmare begins. Despite the vibrant lights of River City on the other side of Chao Phraya River and the boats that pass by in the background, the five dancers in Jitti Chompee's latest work Little Room In Etienne Marcel manage to take the audience to a very dark place of solitude and filthy desire.
New scars run deep
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 08/08/2014
» In many ways, choosing to remake Plae Kao was as equally challenging an endeavour for director ML Pundhevanop. In 1998, the 1977 version was listed as one of the world's 360 classic movies by the Museum of the Moving Image in London with Sight & Sound magazine. In 2011, the film was also chosen by the Thai Film Archive as one of 25 Thai films considered to be national treasures.
Splitting seems not all that shocking
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 22/04/2014
» When a banner bearing the message “This country has no justice. I want to split the country” was set up earlier this year across a pedestrian flyover in Phayao province in the North, I was shocked.
A new song is being written for Suthep
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 31/01/2014
» A few days of cool breezesare usually welcomed by residents of this perennially sultry city of ours, but it's a bit much that the cold spell has dragged on for so many weeks. Flicking on the air-con makes the house too cold and leaving the windows open is a sure recipe for freezing to death under your own roof. And while taking a shower in the mornings is torture, things get tougher if the air-con at your office blasts out air at a temperature even lower than that outside on the street.
War of words
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 27/01/2014
» When the red shirts camped out at Rajamangala Stadium last December to support PM Yingluck Shinawatra, a popular quip among the anti-Thaksin camp was that the football field needed a proper re-turf as those "kwai daeng", or red buffalo, had eaten all the grass.