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A year in art
Life, Suwitcha Chaiyong, Published on 29/12/2025
» Since Thailand's art scene flourished this year, especially in Bangkok, city residents had access to a diverse range of art. As the year draws to an end, Life spoke with Sukontip Nakasem, founder of Warin Lab Contemporary & La Lanta Fine Art, and Voravuj Sujjaporamest, founder of VS Gallery, about highlights and significant art events that happened this year. While Warin Lab Contemporary is renowned for presenting prevailing issues related to ecology and the environment, VS Gallery stands out for presenting issues related to marginalised people.
Mexican art exhibition celebrates half century of relations with Thailand
Life, Arusa Pisuthipan, Published on 23/12/2025
» On December 11th, at the National Gallery of Thailand, the Gallery and the Mexican Embassy launched the #BuscandoMéxico art exhibition to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Mexico-Thailand bilateral relationship while strengthening the ties between two countries through arts.
A Mediterranean union
Life, John Clewley, Published on 08/11/2025
» In 1993, multi-instrumentalists Fain Sanchez Duenas and Vincent Molino from Spain formed Radio Tarifa with singer/songwriter Benjamin Escoriza and released Rumba Argelina, an album that blended Flamenco, Arab-Andalusian, Arabic, Moorish and Mahgrebi music with that from the Renaissance, Mediterranean and even the Caribbean.
Vibrant sounds of Spain take centre stage at piano festival
Life, Published on 04/11/2025
» Following two opening concerts, the Thailand International Piano Festival 2025 continues its third event in their concert series with "Spanish Landscape", which will be held in the Main Auditorium of Silpakorn University, Wang Tha Phra campus, on Saturday at 6.30pm.
A bold new era with Michelin-trained chefs
Life, Published on 19/09/2025
» Centara Hotels & Resorts recently announced the appointment of three new chefs across its Bangkok properties, each shaped by Michelin-starred kitchens in Cádiz, Rome and Hong Kong.
Reinventing hansik
Life, Nianne-Lynn Hendricks, Published on 05/09/2025
» In the Asian food world, chef Mingoo Kang is one of the most respected chefs and a household name in South Korea.
A taste of Alarde in Bangkok
Life, Published on 08/08/2025
» Uno Mas at Centara Grand at CentralWorld brings Bangkok a special dining occasion as chef Yoshitsugu Yamamoto, the acclaimed chef-owner of one Michelin-starred Alarde in Osaka, takes over the kitchen for two nights on Aug 14 and 15.
A surreal telling
Life, Tatat Bunnag, Published on 28/07/2025
» You are not alone if you get into Superstar, the new Netflix miniseries from Spain, without knowing it's based on a real-life figure -- a once-infamous Spanish dance-pop singer from the late 1990s named Tamara, who later reinvented herself as Yurena.
The long and brutal voyage
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 22/05/2025
» In 1521, when his galleon finally cut through the treacherous Pacific Ocean, when the island of Cebu first appeared in his sight at the edge of the horizon, when its slender coconut trees and thatched huts and maybe its half-naked inhabitants came into view, when he lays eyes on all of these, what went through the mind of Ferdinand Magellan?
Agents of change
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 21/05/2025
» Awash with saturated colour and steeped in Brazil's history of authoritarianism, Kleber Mendoça Filho's The Secret Agent has emerged as a serious contender for the Palme d'Or. A former film critic, programmer and now a leading voice in Brazilian cinema, Mendoça Filho's fourth feature -- and his third in Cannes Competition -- is a political thriller, a tribute to disappeared dissidents, and a deft ode to the way memory is passed through time and technology.