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Chart-ing Facebook
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 16/05/2016
» It has been eight years since writer Chart Kobjitti, national artist and two-time SEA Write Award winner, published his book Lorm Wong Khui, a collection of articles written for Si San magazine. Eight years is a long time, especially for fans of various generations who literally grew up with his writing, from the cursed life of Ai-fak in 1981's Khamphiphaksa (The Judgement) that won his first SEA Write award, and the tumultuous story of life, friendship and lots of booze in 1988's Phan Ma Ba, to a miserable account of age and death in a nursing home in 1993's Wela (Time), for which he won the award once again.
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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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Unseen and not heard in the city
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 04/05/2016
» The massive space on the seventh floor of Bangkok Art and Culture Centre is now filled with a series of grainy and greyish photographs. Viewers should be warned that the experience there can be rather disorientating; not only are the photos random, they seem to have been arranged almost impulsively. Entitled "Omnivoyeur And Electrical Walks Bangkok", these photographs by Miti Ruangkritya only make up one part of the show, which is only complete when sounds by German sound artist Christina Kubisch are added.
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Ratchaburi's roll of the dice
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 04/03/2016
» Almost five years ago the late writer and National Artist in literature Prabhassorn Sevikul wrote a short story. The text was not published on paper but painted along the bank of Mae Khlong river, and you had to walk the total of 3km to finish the story. The ephemeral aspect of this, along with 74 other artworks installed around Ratchaburi, featured in the first edition of the community-based "Art Normal" event.
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From the valleys to Bangkok
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 25/03/2016
» Ever since the beginning of the year, Bangkok has not been short of world-class musical icons flying in to grace Thai fans, from Madonna to Santana to most recently David Foster. So it's not unusual that the legendary Welsh singer Tom Jones is next to dazzle Thai audiences.
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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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Fun hits and misses
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 24/02/2016
» The award for best art exhibition opening reception this month goes to café/gallery Counting Sheep Corner on Sukhumvit 61 with Thomas Carrigan's paintings. Despite the fact that it was the bland Singha Light instead of the much-loved original, we had nothing to complain about because the free-flow started before 6pm and continued until late.
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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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Regional revolution
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 03/02/2016
» 'An art fair is always a commercial event," said Lorenzo Rudolf, founder and president of Art Stage Singapore whose sixth edition ended last month. There's not a response more apt than that to a common complaint like: "Oh, but Art Stage is too commercial." It's an art fair, and quite naturally, as Rudolf added in an interview during the fair, "the galleries come here to sell".
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Picture of a genius
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 04/11/2015
» 'He was nothing else but just a painter," said Pablo Picasso's grandson Olivier Widmaier Picasso. It was only when Picasso died, in 1973, that he started to realise how important his grandfather was, not just to the art scene, but to the world.
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