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Three months of edgy grassroots art
Life, Ariane Kupferman-Sutthavong, Published on 06/07/2018
» Bangkok's first-ever Biennial officially kicked off on Sunday night with an evening aerobics session on the Chao Phraya riverside at a popular spot for dwellers and sports lovers beneath the Rama VIII bridge. The choice of location -- anchored in Bangkok residents' daily lives -- and the disruptive event itself -- complete with ceremonial opening remarks and a ribbon-cutting moment -- set the tone (i.e. caustic, critical and edgy) for the many art exhibitions and activities to be held in Bangkok and elsewhere in Thailand in the coming months.
Liberated by film
Life, Ariane Kupferman-Sutthavong, Published on 17/05/2018
» Liberation Day, the 2016 film by Norwegian filmmaker Morten Traavik, has a name that rings in contrast with its Bangkok screening date.
Art and coup: Four years and counting
Life, Ariane Kupferman-Sutthavong, Published on 23/05/2018
» Tuesday marked the fourth anniversary of the May 2014 coup d'etat. While it continues to underpin the political landscape, the coup also sparked an unprecedented rise in Thai artworks with political messages. A new political art exhibition took place almost every month since May 2014.
A fresh kind of artistic social conscience
Life, Ariane Kupferman-Sutthavong, Published on 08/06/2018
» Art exhibitions with a political message may open on a regular basis in Bangkok, but the issues artists tackle in Thailand aren't in fact limited to critiques of military power, censorship or a polarised society.
Corporation with a conscience
Life, Ariane Kupferman-Sutthavong, Published on 13/06/2018
» Letters and postcards dating back to the 1880s adorn the walls of the Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, ordered in a chronological pathway leading to an exhibition by 15 contemporary Thai artists.
Southeast Asian rituals, interpreted
Life, Ariane Kupferman-Sutthavong, Published on 30/05/2018
» Who said rituals had to be dull?
A harbinger of things to come
Life, Ariane Kupferman-Sutthavong, Published on 30/05/2018
» The fifth floor of an office tower may seem an unusual choice of venue for Indonesia's first museum of modern and contemporary art, but its geographical location puzzled local and regional art aficionados the most.
Serving a higher purpose
Life, Ariane Kupferman-Sutthavong, Published on 04/06/2018
» The Bangkok Art and Culture Centre (BACC) made headlines last month owing to more than one reason. Even before (appointed) Bangkok governor Aswin Kwanmuang articulated his irking comments -- by which he made it known to the world that he would like to see the art centre turned into a co-working space packed with chairs -- critics and defenders of the BACC's management were already arguing on social media.
To kill an Indochinese leopard
Life, Ariane Kupferman-Sutthavong, Published on 18/04/2018
» In the past two months, there has hardly been a week during which the phrase sua dam wasn't mentioned in the news. The slaughter of an Indochinese leopard -- though it's often referred to, incorrectly, as a black panther -- has sparked a wave of outrage, news coverage, moral indignation and street art paintings.
The price of progress
Life, Ariane Kupferman-Sutthavong, Published on 25/04/2018
» Members of the Pom Mahakan community gave a tearful farewell to their homes on Sunday, as the historically significant site and its centennial houses will be torn down to make way for a park project backed by the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration. The last structures will be gone by the end of the week.