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Hollywood A-listers donate millions to striking actors
AFP, Published on 03/08/2023
» LOS ANGELES: A dozen of Hollywood's highest-earning stars, from George Clooney to Meryl Streep, have each donated $1 million or more to support out-of-work actors as their strike enters its fourth week, their union's charitable foundation said Wednesday.
Stars go out in Hollywood as strike expands
AFP, Published on 15/07/2023
» LOS ANGELES: Honking horns, simmering heat, a smattering of stars and a lot of anger at Disney boss Bob Iger.
Challenging the norm
Life, Published on 12/12/2022
» Anonymous England-based street artist Banksy is notable for his stencil-style artwork with dark humour that criticises social issues, politics, wars, capitalism and consumerism while promoting freedom of expression. Although Banksy's true identity remains mysterious, his images with powerful messages through murals and other art forms have captured global attention.
Freelance artists need rights protections, union says
Life, Thana Boonlert, Published on 06/12/2022
» A recent survey by the Creative Workers Union Thailand (CUT) shows that almost 80% of illustrators have commission-based, underpaid jobs, highlighting the precarity of freelancers who have no access to financial security, welfare benefits orlegal protection.
Exhibition focuses on the rights of workers
Life, Published on 20/06/2022
» The stories of marginalised labourers are portrayed through art during "Crossing The Lines", which is running at SAC Gallery, until July 16.
Giving the voiceless a voice
Life, Suwitcha Chaiyong, Published on 23/02/2022
» Artist Kawita Vatanajyankur uses her entire body, especially feet, arms, hands and mouth, as a machine to weave red yarn into a piece of fabric that resembles a spider web. Kawita's spider web can be seen in the video Knit, which is part of the Performing Textiles Series.
From here to eternity
Life, Suwitcha Chaiyong, Published on 30/07/2020
» Whenever artist Pachara Piyasongsoot goes to visit his girlfriend at her housing estate, he always sees the cleaning staff working tirelessly. After befriending one cleaning lady, he learned that some six families from Kalasin province live in a hidden 92m² space behind a tennis practice wall. Some of them have been there for as long as 20 years.
The kids aren't alright
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 08/11/2019
» Crime is not limited by gender or age. Men, women and children can all end up behind bars for committing criminal acts. Ignorance of the law is no excuse. Many jurists advocate that laws be reconsidered periodically to determine whether they are still applicable. Some turn into the Blue Laws of yore, still on the books but no longer enforced. Others get overturned.
Saint and sensibility
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 16/05/2019
» A Christian fable or a Marxist allegory? A magical-realist myth or a political cry against neoliberalism (or feudalism, which produces the same catastrophe anyway)?
A shady underworld
Life, Sawarin Suwichakornpong, Published on 03/05/2019
» We, The Survivors, the fourth novel by the Malaysian-British Tash Aw, is a compelling account of the life of a working-class lad named Lee Hock Lye, or known among friends as Ah Hock. It's a vivid tale of an imaginative young man with ideas of setting foot in a better place than a ramshackle village where livelihood depends on fishing and harvesting cockles from the polluted mudflats. Ah Hock isn't an angry young man, nor is he an idler who accepts whatever comes his way as fate. He tries hard with life, changing numbers of jobs to make ends meet, hoping one day he'd move to settle down with a house and family in Kuala Lumpur or Singapore or even farther afield. The world that he inhabits, however, is a microcosm of the much larger equilibrium, where society permits a select few to climb the ladder, and the majority -- the ilk of Ah Hock -- remains stuck in poverty, leading a life that's going nowhere.