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A sticky solution
Life, Suwitcha Chaiyong, Published on 02/06/2025
» Having worked as an art conservator for 30 years, Kwanjit Lertsiri knows that chemicals used in the industry since the 1950s are harmful and can damage murals.
Compiling it all into sight and sound
Life, Suwitcha Chaiyong, Published on 27/09/2023
» Thanachai "Pod" Ujjin, is best known as the frontman of Moderndog, the pioneer of Thailand's alternative rock bands. Aside from being a singer-songwriter, Thanachai has been passionate about creating abstract paintings for a decade.
Exhibition explores the beauty of leather
Life, Published on 21/08/2023
» The charm and uniqueness of leather are radiated through art by a dozen artists during "Unveiling Leather: The Artistic Journey Of Craftsmanship", which is running at the Four Seasons Art Space by MOCA Bangkok, Four Seasons Hotel, Charoen Krung Road, until Nov 5.
Contemporary mediocrities
Life, Apinan Poshyananda, Published on 03/05/2021
» At the recent ribbon-cutting ceremony of the Office of Contemporary Art and Culture's (OCAC) Art Collection in the spacious art hall on Ratchadamnoen Avenue, a group of ageing male artists covered in sanitary masks surrounded the director of OCAC, Vimolluck Chuchart, who gave a self-congratulatory speech. She proudly announced that the public will be able to view for the first time the national collection of the Ministry of Culture's contemporary Thai art. Beside these elderlies stood a white giant fibreglass sculpture by Sutee Kunavichyanont in Thai military uniform wearing a helmet with a rifle erect. Sutee's Equality; Thai Soldier (2016) is inspired by the cultural mandates between 1939 and 1942 during the premiere of Phibul Songkhram that aimed to uplift the national spirit and moral code of the nation and instil progressive tendencies and newness into Thai life.
A show for lovers of of art
Life, Published on 23/02/2021
» The Covid-19 pandemic can't stop enthusiasts from enjoying the aesthetics of art as G111 Gallery Antiques & Collectibles in Bangkok has gathered masterpieces by the country's top artists for those looking for inspiration.
At the crossroads of justice and virtue
Life, Chris Baker, Published on 10/07/2020
» The judiciary is the least studied element of the Thai polity. That did not matter much 25 years ago because it played almost no political role. But now the courts bring down governments, exile leaders, dissolve political parties, punish protesters and jail people for thought crimes. This book is long awaited and does not disappoint.
Angkrit Ajchariyasophon takes over Speedy Grandma
Life, Ariane Sutthavong, Published on 08/02/2018
» 'It's my solo exhibition and these are all invited artists," Angkrit Ajchariyasophon quipped, pointing to the white panel boards from which 20 paintings hang -- each of them authored by a different artist but none by Angkrit himself.