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Get into the groove -- Madonna is here
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 09/02/2016
» Yes, Madonna is singing live tonight. And yes, Madonna is definitely by now somewhere in Bangkok, after photos showing her arrive at the airport on Sunday night popped up online, enough for her "children" across Thailand to swoon. As you read this, just take a moment to get this fact registered in your head the Queen of Pop is actually here on the same soil as the rest of us, breathing this same polluted Bangkok air. She could be queuing up for some moo ping for breakfast on the streets, or on the back of a motorcycle to Platinum in search for new looks, we don't know.
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A beautiful yet random mess
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 17/02/2016
» Perhaps "Heavy Metal", a new show at Tars Gallery, was not that well thought out. That was just an initial response, though. The whitewashed walls and good lighting of this newly opened space make a good start for any show; the clean minimal set-up of its debut show "Untitled 1" last year was proof of that. But now, it's a lot more complex -- "messy" may be the preferred term -- primarily with a scatter of potted plants, bright pastel-painted canvases and images of Roman sculptures mounted on plasterboard.
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The shape-shifting form of protests
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 06/10/2015
» The streets remained empty and all was quiet when thousands of people gathered last Wednesday night to protest against the government's Single Gateway proposal. Protesters weren't, however, down at major landmarks like Asoke or Ratchaprasong intersections, but simply in front of their computer screens. By merely punching the refresh button, these protesters let their resentment known to the authorities by crashing at least six government sites, including the Ministry of Information and Communications Technology.
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It's elemental
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 17/06/2015
» Paradiso Gallerie, just a few minutes walk off the Giardini waterbus stop in Venice, is either a gallery space with a café or a café with a gallery space. Regardless, it is where Thai artwork is housed. National Artist Kamol Tassananchalee's set of prints, paintings and sculptures, Earth, Air, Fire & Water, represents Thailand in the 56th La Biennale di Venezia, the high-profile international art show that began last month and runs until Nov 22.
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Butterflies and solitude
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 20/05/2015
» The opening of 100 Tonson Gallery's "Chatchai Puipia: Sites Of Solitude. Still-Life, Self-Portraiture, And The Living Archive" last month seemed to have been an unmissable event for every prominent figure in the Bangkok art scene, except for Chatchai himself. It's not that there was something urgent he had to attend to; he had no intention of going, not when the show was being set up, nor when it was running.
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Abstraction remains our faulty coping mechanism
Oped, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 30/09/2016
» A theatrical performance, Fundamental, which lends its physical movements and body language to reconstruct Thailand's hushed-up history of the bloody military crackdown on pro-democracy students on Oct 6, 1976 has attracted the regime's attention.
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Protest, die, repeat?
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 18/05/2016
» Sunday marks the second anniversary of the 2014 military takeover, the second coup d'etat in Thailand in a decade and the 12th successful one since absolute monarchy was overthrown in 1932. And three months from now, in August, the highly controversial charter referendum will take place.
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Fundraising for the land
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 23/03/2016
» Rirkrit Tiravanija's cooking is always a highly anticipated experience for the art world. Tonight, he's cooking for 120 guests -- international collectors, curators, designers, press and friends -- at The Pier Studios in Chai Wan, Hong Kong, as part of a fundraising for The Land Foundation, which Rirkrit and Kamin Lertchaiprasert founded in 2004.
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(Authorised) art attack
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 20/01/2016
» Around this time in 2014, the late artist Mamafaka's one-eyed gigantic monster Mr. HellYeah, spray-painted at the ruins near BTS Ratchathewi, was "bombed" by another graffiti group. The original graffiti was done as part of the first edition of street art festival Bukruk in 2013, and when the controversy about it being defaced erupted, the unauthorised vandalism of the authorised vandalism exemplied the very essence of street art: nothing is permanent.
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Tars Gallery adds to Phra Khanong art vibe
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 16/12/2015
» Charoen Krung area has for some time now established itself as "the creative district", and no one can argue with that. Take "Galleries' Night" last month, when the entire neighbourhood was taken over by art, from NACC and Cloud near Hua Lamphong train terminus to Speedy Grandma, Soy Sauce Factory, Serindia Gallery and Atta Gallery at O.P. Garden and Bridge Art Space, near BTS Saphan Taksin.
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