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Lion's share
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 27/01/2017
» The night was lively around the neighbourhood of Saint-Germain-des-Prés last Saturday for the opening of this year's Paris Déco Off, an annual event where more than 100 home-furnishing-fabrics brands join to showcase their latest designs. But there was perhaps more buzzing than anywhere else down the quaint Rue de Furstenberg where the Jim Thompson showroom is situated.
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Where time and space cease to exist
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 02/11/2016
» How do we picture the world and ourselves? That is one of the key questions asked in "An Atlas Of Mirrors", the fifth edition of Singapore Biennale, which opened last week at various venues with the Singapore Art Museum (SAM) and SAM at 8Q as the main spaces. As many as 63 artists and collectives joined and the result is a gushing forth of narratives -- collective and personal, historical and contemporary, factual and imaginary.
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Songkhla's art scene comes alive
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 26/08/2016
» The historic old town of Songkhla is always full of life. But everything -- the people and the picturesque old neighbourhood flanked by the lake on one side and ocean on the other -- was accentuated over the past weekend.
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Back on track
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 25/11/2015
» Aside from "Journey Of 999 Elephants" -- an exhibition in which 999 artists joined to paint 999 exact same models of elephants that are now strewn everywhere from CentralWorld, Zen, on the BTS Skywalk over Ratchaprasong intersection and on the second floor leading to the entrance of Central Chidlom to Central Embassy -- the highlight of the capital's art scene this month is "Galleries' Night", which is taking place this Friday and Saturday.
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An experimental sensibility
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 28/10/2015
» This month's Art Matters begins with rather worrying news for H Gallery. After a visit to a photography show by Kornkrit Jianpinidnan, which just opened last Saturday at Bangkok Citycity Gallery, one fact hit me hard: Tam, H Gallery's dog in residency, may not be the only contender for the cutest canine in the capital's art scene.
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Flight of fancy
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 21/05/2015
» Since its launch last year, the five-storey Thonglor Art Space has hardly been short of crowd-pleasing stage productions. After The Lady Of Siam: The Musical, an adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, New Theatre Society's director Damkerng Thitapiyasak is set to present comedy Fly With Me, Free Breakfast, an adaptation from the classic farce Boeing-Boeing by French playwright Marc Camoletti.
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Facades of normality
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 25/02/2015
» Try clicking "join" to just a few exhibition opening events on Facebook and you will realise how overwhelming the Bangkok art scene can actually be. There are notifications of pre-opening private views, pre-opening talks, opening parties, special performances, and, of course, an exhibition closing party again. These plethora of events are totally understandable, however, because art spaces in Bangkok are becoming more about being a fun place to hang out, and, it has to be said, art does get better after a few beers.
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Angels of trash
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 07/01/2015
» Prasert Yodkaew's angel wings are made of a plug, a Chinese spoon, a bidet spray, a used toothbrush, a plastic fork, an amulet, nuts and bolts and some wires wrapped roughly in plastic cover.
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Curators' favourite exhibitions of 2014
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 19/12/2014
» This year visual art, compared to theatre and film, has not been all that politically active despite 2014, with its mass protests, coup and subsequent outcry for freedom of expression being one of the most tumultuous years in recent history.While most galleries have retained their stance on putting on exhibitions purely for aesthetic purposes, it's exciting to see a few small art spaces that have been active in providing alternative venues for young artists. In this round-up, Life asks five curators to pick their favourite shows of the year.
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Kid teacher
Muse, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 11/01/2014
» Some people have an immediate aversion towards kids on TV. The stereotypical view - that they are alarmingly precocious, acting and speaking way beyond their age - often blames parents for taking away an important part of these kids' childhoods.
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