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A futuristic view
Life, Suwitcha Chaiyong, Published on 26/06/2024
» To celebrate its 10th anniversary, Central Embassy takes visitors to the future in "Bangkok 3024", a world-class immersive showcase. "Bangkok 3024" was created by Daniel Arsham, a New York-based artist known for fictional archaeology -- a concept that explores our current era and culture through the perspective of the future.
Greece inspires Dior Cruise 2022 collection
Life, Published on 03/12/2021
» For Maria Grazia Chiuri, each collection is an occasion for establishing a link between a creative project, savoir-faire, and innovation. An opportunity to build a fecund environment, like an immense atelier where research into materials, techniques and production methods plays a major role. For the Dior Cruise 2022 collection -- which will be shown in the heart of the Panathenaic Stadium in Athens -- Maria Grazia Chiuri weaves an open dialogue with local ateliers and craftsmen, to discover and promote traditions that are intimately tied to places and families. She initiates exchanges with an emphasis on the processes of collective creation, at the junction of memory and cultural values to be handed down to younger generations.
Hong Kong gears for tourists with summer video series
Life, Pattarawadee Saengmanee, Published on 29/06/2021
» Gearing up for summer, Hong Kong Tourism Board (HKTB) is staying connected with local and foreign tourists with the Great Outdoors Summer video series that captures and bottles the city's auditory essence into highly immersive and pleasurable viewing experiences.
Melancholy and absurdity
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 14/05/2021
» Chaitanya Tamhane was 27 years old when his breakthrough film Court became a critical sensation and won the Lion of the Future Award at the Venice festival in 2014. A film of understated power about India's Kafkaesque judicial tribulation, Court announced the arrival of an exceptional talent from Mumbai, a proud cinema city usually associated with rambunctious Bollywood titles.
New, safe home for the Louvre's unseen treasures and artefacts
Life, Elaine Sciolino of the New York Times, Published on 17/02/2021
» PARIS: It is the most ambitious move in the history of the Louvre -- a five-year project to transfer a quarter of a million artworks to an ultramodern storage site 193km away in northern France.
Protecting national treasures
Life, Montakarn Suvanatap, Published on 02/09/2019
» Popular culture tends to depict art and antique collectors as evil thieves who rob priceless treasures belonging to all of humanity. Nonetheless, many collectors and private museums say they collect for the purpose of preservation, because national entities do not have the capacity to safeguard rare objects from destruction by environmental harm and war, the actual thieves in their view.
Storybook picturehouse
Life, Melalin Mahavongtrakul, Published on 27/05/2019
» For the past decade or so, Philip Jablon has travelled from town to town throughout Thailand looking for stand-alone cinemas. The fruits of his epic journey have now been compiled in the form of the book Thailand's Movie Theatres: Relics, Ruins And The Romance of Escape, which will be released on Friday.
Remembering Our Lady Of Paris
Life, Tatat Bunnag, Published on 10/05/2019
» Notre Dame de Paris, also called Notre Dame Cathedral, is one of the most famous Gothic cathedrals of the Middle Ages and is distinguished for its size as well as architectural and antiquity interest. So when the fire broke on April 15 and destroyed the spire and most parts of the roof of the 850-year-old church, not only was the building structure devastated but so was the spirit of people the world over who grieved over the near destruction of an important church in the heart of Paris.
Chinese beauty frozen in time
Life, Noko, Published on 08/02/2019
» Who's the fairest of all from Chinese antiquity?
Fantastic folk montages
Life, Apipar Norapoompipat, Published on 26/09/2018
» For over a decade, New York-based interdisciplinary artist Bruce Gundersen has been fascinated by Southeast Asian mythical folk tales. Stories like Pla Boo Thong (The Golden Goby Fish) and Champa Thong have long been passed down from generation to generation through text, song, dance, visual arts, and even in TV series and movies.