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  Delusion and denim dreams

  Life, Apipar Norapoompipat, Published on 08/04/2016

  » It was an almost overwhelming experience of sights and sounds on Sunday as the Bangkok CityCity Gallery played host to Korakrit Arunanondchai's crazy, conceptual world of burnt denim, nightmare-inducing mannequins, and a giant cyber-jungle monster. A collection by the New York-based multimedia artist comprising denim paintings, abstract body paint and a floor-to-ceiling installation of entangled foliage, drones, wires, electronics and mannequins engendered a mixture of awe, appreciation and confusion in equal measure.

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  Defying authority with creativity

  Life, Apipar Norapoompipat, Published on 11/05/2016

  » You know it's going to be an interesting exhibition (especially in Thailand's current political climate) when both police and army officials drop by to question and find reasons to shut it down. That just so happened to have occurred at the opening of "Paradise Of The Blind" by Sutthirat Supaparinya at The Reading Room last week. The show is the first part of the "Sleepover" series, a six-month project involving handing over the library to six influential groups or figures, giving them complete autonomy over the space for one month each.

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  Charismatic Puth gives fans some joy amid tragedy

  Life, Apipar Norapoompipat, Published on 16/08/2016

  » While the series of bombings on Mother's Day last Friday brought down the mood of the country, singer-songwriter and hitmaker Charlie Puth, for the brief moment he performed that night, gave the Bangkok crowd a much-needed boost of joy and positivity.

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  Taking one for Bangkok

  Life, Apipar Norapoompipat, Published on 30/08/2016

  » Simple Plan is the band everyone loves to hate -- the band no one wants to admit they were obsessed with. But admit it: anyone in their mid 20s to 30s knows all the lyrics to Welcome To My Life.

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  An environmental wonder

  Life, Apipar Norapoompipat, Published on 11/10/2016

  » As festival season dies down in the West, it's only just beginning to take off here in Thailand. Music, arts and food events will be settling in on every breezy and open area in the country, and Wonderfruit, the most ambitious and inimitable of all the festivals in Thailand (and Southeast Asia), is returning for its third consecutive year.

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  Gloriously absurd

  Life, Apipar Norapoompipat, Published on 07/02/2017

  » The usual initial reaction of a person watching Paradox perform for the first time would go along the lines of: "What the heck is going on?"

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  In Salgado's pictures: empathy, meaning and truth

  Life, Apipar Norapoompipat, Published on 10/02/2017

  » Gaze at any of Sebastião Salgado's photographs and overwhelming emotion washes over you. The hauntingly magnificent black-and-white photos, which at times punch you right in the gut, depict the best and worst of the planet we live on. From the bleak mud-covered miners climbing hell-like pits of the Serra Pelada gold mine in Brazil to petroleum-soaked workers in the war-torn oilfields of Kuwait, to the sun-kissed mountain ranges of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska -- Salgado's work possesses qualities many photographers today seem to have forgotten about in this image-saturated world: empathy, meaning, truth.

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  Subversive, perverse, funny, honest?

  Life, Apipar Norapoompipat, Published on 10/03/2017

  » Joan Cornellà's art isn't for the sensitive of heart. Masked in bright colours and empty smiles of his characters, his comics are vile, controversial, politically incorrect and uncomfortable. But to the right kind of person, they're absolutely hilarious.

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  Art education

  Life, Apipar Norapoompipat, Published on 20/04/2017

  » Without artists, there would be no curators, and without curators, there would be no exhibitions. It may be a long stretch, but with this knowledge in hand, the camaraderie within Asia's art scene seems to be growing stronger than ever, and Bangkok Art and Culture Centre (BACC)'s latest exhibition Mode of Liaisons just seems to prove that.

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  The life of paper

  Life, Apipar Norapoompipat, Published on 24/05/2017

  » As part of Siam Discovery's The Dream Maker project, in which designers, artists and craftsmen are invited to share their work and inspire the next generation of creatives, Object of Design Store (ODS) has joined hands with New York artist Craig Anczelowitz and Meiko Fujimori, dye-master from the 300-year-old Japanese paper-mill Awagami Factory, to launch "The Space Between: Artworks On Awagami Paper".

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