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Constant flux
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 14/12/2016
» Bangkok Art and Culture Centre hasn't seen this many visitors in quite a while. Today people are everywhere in the exhibition space on the 9th floor even though it is a weekday afternoon. They have never been so involved with the artworks on display and careless as to what other visitors might think of them.
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Face of the streets at Bangkok Citycity Gallery
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 16/12/2016
» After a four-year hiatus, famed Thai street artist Patcharapon Tangruen, better known as Alex Face, is presenting his solo show "Alive" at Bangkok Citycity Gallery. His absence, however, was merely from gallery spaces for his iconic three-eyed rabbit-like character has been on the streets everywhere -- Bangkok, Jakarta, Tokyo, Seoul, Taipei, London, Copenhagen, Amsterdam, Berlin, to name a few.
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Remaking the scene
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 21/12/2016
» It has been a busy year for the Thai art scene, with well-known artists taking turns treating Bangkok viewers to their latest works, new galleries welcomed and old ones closing down, and politics remaining deeply embedded in artistic expression.
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A complex legacy
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 19/10/2016
» Towering over viewers right after entering the Singtel Special Exhibition Gallery at National Gallery Singapore is a massive photograph by Singaporean artist Lee Wen. It features the statue of Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles with a platform nearby upon which ordinary people can literally and figuratively be on the same level as the figure who's considered the founder of Singapore.
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Fair winds
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 10/11/2016
» In the waters off Hua Hin's coastline, all was calm at first. Then, all of a sudden, a strong wind picked up, sending a young boy and his sailing dinghy to clash with another boat, which was leading the race.
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Silent scream
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 09/11/2016
» Like most other entertainment and cultural events, artist Sina Wittayawiroj's solo exhibition "Beat Around The Bush" at Bridge Art Space was cancelled last month due to the passing of His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej. It was not the right time, Sina said, because this is a sensitive time and his set of multidisciplinary works attempt to speak about a certain chapter in history, which has remained a taboo.
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Examining identity
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 16/11/2016
» A lot is going on in "Continuum: Acculturating", the latest exhibition at The Art Center at Chulalongkorn University. Jakkai Siributr, Jedsada Tangtrakulwong and Piyatat Hemmatat show different interests and practices, and with "acculturation" as the key idea, the result is three separate and complicated realms. In them, narratives and cultural identities -- those of the artists' origins and from the new environments they are looking at -- are constantly shifting and integrating.
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The elephant in the room
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 17/11/2016
» Last weekend, Something Missing, a performance by South Korea's Theatre Momggol and B-Floor Theatre, which won Best Movement-based Performance from the International Association of Theatre Critics (Thailand Centre) last year, was back at Thong Lor Art Space for its second instalment, called The Rite Of Passage.
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Looking upward through the camera's lens
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 18/11/2016
» Broccoli Revolution has for some time been known as a dream spot for vegan food, but that's not all it has to offer. Housed in the venue is the recently launched Case Art Space, and in its upcoming exhibition "Sky" will showcase photography from youth who participated in the FACES/NOW Art Therapy Programme.
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Route to pay your respects
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 18/10/2016
» It is a time of grief as the nation mourns the passing of His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej last Thursday. Since last week, thousands of Thais have flocked daily, braving the scorching sun or heavy rain, to pay their respects before a portrait of His Majesty the King at the Sala Sahathai Samakhom Pavilion inside the Grand Palace, while His Majesty is lying in state at the Dusit Maha Prasart Throne Hall.
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