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Powerful works at the Biennale
Life, Suwitcha Chaiyong, Published on 08/01/2025
» Bangkok Art Biennale 2024 has embraced the theme "Nurture Gaia". Inspired by Mother Earth, this year's Biennale explores contemporary themes such as anthropology, collectivism, ecology, feminism, and the politics of time and place.
Bangkok Art Biennale returns for another season on Oct 24
Life, Published on 17/09/2024
» Bangkok Art Biennale is set to return on Oct 24, 2024 with the title "Nurture Gaia".
Bangkok Art Biennale adds to line-up
Life, Patcharawalai Sanyanusin, Published on 12/07/2024
» Bangkok Art Biennale 2024, which will be running for four months from Oct 24 this year to Feb 25 next year, has announced some exciting news.
Seen and heard
Life, John Clewley, Published on 11/10/2022
» It has been nearly 30 years since Dr Grace Nono released her first album on a new label, Tao Music, which she set up with her late partner, producer and guitarist Bob Aves. With her musical collaborator, she set about searching for her musical identity.
Thai designer blends masculine/feminine
Life, Published on 05/08/2022
» The Fashion Hall of Siam Paragon was turned into a fashion runway for the Theatre's men fashion show that reflects feminism and masculinity of gentlemen in the 20s, which was the beginning of science in a fusion of cultural and technological elements.
The mafia queen
Life, Tatat Bunnag, Published on 20/05/2022
» A 14-year-old girl is tricked into prostitution in Mumbai in the late 1950s. Despite being imprisoned, chained and subjected to torture, she keeps resisting and refuses to sell her body, causing trouble and headaches for the brothel pimps. The matter soon reaches the ears of Gangubai (Alia Bhatt), the mafia queen of Mumbai, who helps solve the problem. Reflecting on her own painful memories soon after meeting the young girl, Gangubai realises her purpose in life and decides to write her own destiny -- to fight and protect 4,000 other women trapped in the world's oldest profession.
Taking education into their own hands
Life, Suwitcha Chaiyong, Published on 25/04/2022
» Many Thai children learn the alphabet by rote memory -- A for Ant, B for Boy, C for Cat and so on. But for Wasin Pathomyok and Plengmontra Bubphamas, parents of a two-year-old daughter, they created an A to Z poster using a human rights theme. The idea of the ABC human rights poster came after Wasin and Plengmontra read English children's books such as A Is For Activist, An ABC of Equality and F For Feminism.
Artist explores human limits in new exhibition
Life, Published on 11/01/2022
» Labour exploitation in the textile industry is the subject of "Spinning Wheels", which is running at Jim Thompson House Museum, until Feb 28.
On the road to nowhere
Life, Yvonne Bohwongprasert, Published on 22/12/2021
» In "Nowhere Woman", multi-talented artist Chanaradee "Phaan" Chatrakul Na Ayudhya introduces to the audience paintings of her coming-of-age account under today's dark and often disturbing political climate.
Lady boss from a feminist fairy tale
Life, Punsita Ritthikarn, Published on 12/11/2021
» A comedy-drama series about three millennial besties working at glossy women's magazine Scarlet is the rage among young women in media as it focuses on female empowerment in the workplace. Sadly, this story will come to an end when the final season is released on Netflix soon, but for now, it's time to catch up with the first four seasons.