• LIFE

  Visual autobiography

  Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 14/06/2013

  » It is more fitting to call Chalood Nimsamer's latest exhibition a visual autobiography.

• LIFE

  Butoh invades Bangkok

  Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 08/08/2014

  » The recently opened Thong Lor Art Space presents "Butoh Bangkok", a three-day show with three butoh performances by Thai and international artists from tomorrow until Sunday. 

• LIFE

  Bambi gets sexy

  Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 11/09/2014

  » In more than one way, ongoing performance The Last Schomburgk’s Deer at Crescent Moon Space is starkly raw and honest pornography.

• LIFE

  Shakespeare on tour

  Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 21/05/2015

  » Perhaps the most widely interpreted play in the history of theatre, Hamlet is now enjoying even more exposure as Shakespeare's Globe, a renowned theatre troupe from London, plans to visit every single country in the world with their production by the end of 2016, coinciding with the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death.

• OPINION

  The joke that isn't funny anymore

  Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 08/07/2015

  » For quite a while I had managed to completely wipe Gen Prayut out of my mind. By turning off the familiar tune Return Happiness To Thailand as soon as it comes on, by ignoring the latest absurdities shared on Facebook and by not engaging in a conversation criticising our dear leader and the NCPO, it was a state of blissful apathy. Without news consumption, anger was starved and eventually died. As the state of calm ignorance shifted in, life was OK again.

• LIFE

  A monthly column rounding up the best of the capita l’s art scene

  Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 30/09/2015

  » Art Matters begins with a gentle reminder that "Rediscovering Forgotten Thai Masters Of Photography" -- a black-and-white optic feast comprised of works by seven Thai photographers -- continues at Bangkok University Gallery until the end of Oct and is not to be missed.

• OPINION

  A calendar for the 99.3%

  Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 08/01/2016

  » New year is for new beginnings. This is as much a cliché as it is true. While it is just a new day, we carry the illusion that comes with Jan 1. The past is suddenly forgiven and forgotten, a clean slate: new hobbies, new goals, new habits, new lives, and, of course, new calendars. Now, the first week of January is already over, and if you are still in search for the right calendar to guide you through the year, there's never a more fun place to search for one than our beloved country, Thailand.

• LIFE

  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.

• LIFE

  Wake up and smell the truth

  Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 10/02/2016

  » During a recent press tour of “Scene From A Wake” by Anup Mathew Thomas, this year’s winner of the Han Nefkens Foundation-BACC Award for Contemporary Art, there wasn’t really a tour. We were left to wander unguided, and consequently left confused, even though the Indian artist was present. The second attempt was through an email interview: “Suppose this is a virtual tour, can you take our readers through a few of your pieces in the exhibition?” Here’s his reply:

• LIFE

  Out of the sunlight

  Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 28/04/2016

  » Every use of the word "sunlight" in Duncan Macmillan's play Every Brilliant Thing, was replaced with "sunset" by director Pawit Mahasarinand in his Thai adaptation, which has just finished its run at Chulalongkorn University's Sodsai Pantoomkomol Centre for Dramatic Arts last week.

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