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Artist pays homage to a local icon
Life, Published on 15/01/2025
» Thai artist Vichit Nongnual presents a series of works made in homage of a leading figure of Thai modern art during "The Grandmaster: After Tang Chang", which is running at La Lanta Fine Art until Feb 26.
Chilean 'gaming granny' challenges stereotypes
AFP, Published on 29/12/2023
» LLAY-LLAY, Chile - Few players of the online video game Free Fire would know that one of their most ferocious opponents — a lithe, gun-wielding warrior in a short kimono and fang mask — is in reality an 81-year-old grandmother from rural Chile.
And ya don't stop!
Life, John Clewley, Published on 16/08/2023
» On Aug 11, New York City celebrated the 50th anniversary the birth of hip-hop with exhibitions, concerts and street art across the five boroughs.
Rapper's Delight as New York celebrates 50 years of hip-hop
AFP, Published on 20/07/2023
» NEW YORK: From a display of Jay-Z lyrics on the facade of the Brooklyn Library to a concert of rap pioneers at Yankee Stadium, New York is celebrating 50 years of hip-hop, a genre born in its ghettos and now dominant around the world.
Lee 'Scratch' Perry, reggae and dub wizard, dies at 85
AFP, Published on 30/08/2021
» NEW YORK: Lee "Scratch" Perry, the wildly influential Jamaican singer and producer who pushed the boundaries of reggae and shepherded dub, died Sunday. He was 85 years old.
Striking a chord
Life, Noko, Published on 18/12/2020
» In 1989, Patek Philippe marked its 150th anniversary with Calibre 89, the world's most complicated portable timepiece with 33 complications. Its grande and petite sonnerie along with a minute repeater, four gongs and an alarm on a fifth gong exemplify the Swiss brand's mastery in the music of time.
Complex beauty
Life, Noko, Published on 23/10/2020
» Grand complications have always been Patek Philippe's passion, from the very beginning with its quarter repeater pocket watch created in 1839.
The wonder of time
Life, Story: Kanokporn Chanasongkram, Published on 10/10/2019
» After the New York edition in 2017, Patek Philippe pinned the next location for its Watch Art Grand Exhibition, which had previously been staged in Dubai, Munich and London.
The asparagus whisperer
Life, Nianne-Lynn Hendricks, Published on 01/06/2018
» Sylvain Erhardt planted his first seed in 2009 and harvested his first crop in April 2010 in Sénas, France. Popularly known as the "king of asparagus", Asperges de Roques Hautes supplies some of the world's best chefs with the spring's most coveted vegetable.
Exhilarating escapism, Spielberg-style
Life, Story by KONG RITHDEE, Published on 30/03/2018
» A breathless romp through virtual reality, Steven Spielberg's Ready Player One presents a T-Rex-size irony: A film that cautions us against the exhilarating escapism of digital simulacrum that divorces us from reality -- VR, 3D, Facebook, online games, movies -- is first and foremost an exhilarating escapism manufactured upon a massive digital simulacrum. Spielberg, one of the first directors to turn Hollywood into a factory of digital effects, certainly knows this. But with unruffled confidence and youthful velocity, the 71-year-old gambles that the thrills would override the insincerity -- that nobody would mind the self-defeating scruples as long as the breakneck ride keeps us glued.