Thursday, July 18, 2019

Arts & Culture

In celebration of lacquer artistry

Professional and amateur artists are being encouraged to submit their work to the HCM City Fine Arts Association for display in South Vietnam’s largest Lacquer Paintings Exhibition 2020 that gets underway in September.
Kremlin Ballet set to charm audiences with three tales in October

Ballet has always been an essential component of the Bangkok International Festival of Dance and Music, and this time it is bringing the critically acclaimed Russian powerhouse – the Kremlin Ballet – to stage three routines in October at the Thailand Cultural Centre.
Artistic rites of passage

Long before body art became a fashion statement, it played a major role in culture and symbolism, with meanings ranging from giving magic powers to showing respect and protecting from danger.
Beautiful shapes, fantastic prizes

The Grand Mercure Bangkok Fortune joins up with the Culture Ministry and the Tourism Authority of Thailand in celebrating artistic talent this Friday (July 19) as it plays host to the 21st edition of the Fruit and Vegetable Carving Contest.
A lesson in ‘outsider art’

Being billed as the first large-scale Art Brut exhibition in Southeast Asia, “Art Brut: Figure of Unknown Beauty” will be unveiled on July 19 at the Bangkok Art and Culture Centre’s main gallery on the eighth floor.

The “Lacquer Paintings Exhibition 2020” due to open at HCM City Fine Arts Museum on September 13 will showcase both traditional and contemporary works. --Photo/ HCM City Fine Arts Museum

In celebration of lacquer artistry

Jul 18. 2019

“The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Esmeralda)”

Kremlin Ballet set to charm audiences with three tales in October

Jul 18. 2019

The tattoos of Lanna people of northern Thailand is on exhibit at the exhibition “Tattoo COLOUR, Tattoo HONOR” that runs through October 27 at the museum on Sanam Chai Road.

Artistic rites of passage

Jul 17. 2019

Beautiful shapes, fantastic prizes

Jul 15. 2019

A lesson in ‘outsider art’

Jul 09. 2019

Home and away

Jul 09. 2019

Blades of perfect glory

Jul 08. 2019

Photo by DESMOND WEE, The Straits Times
A performance by China National Theatre for Children during the Singapore-Youth Arts Festival 2019 opening ceremony on Friday.

Singapore's youth arts festival promotes Chinese culture and language

Jul 06. 2019

Rolex sets time on a ‘Perpetual Planet’

Jul 05. 2019

Bella Whittaker’s ‘babes’ set to land in Bangkok

Jul 04. 2019

Teaching Thais to take the top hospitality jobs

Jul 03. 2019

Cambodia: now and then

Jul 01. 2019

Art that’s not for sleeping

Jul 01. 2019

It was an important day in November 1988 when we were able to report that the Art Institute of Chicago had agreed to return a looted temple structure known as the Narai stone lintel.

A partner to the arts

Jun 28. 2019

Life in little pieces

Jun 27. 2019

Junta foe Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit and art critic Thanom Chapakdee lay a commemorative plate inscribed with the words “Aesthetics of Resistance” at the launch of the Manifesto by Maielie gallery in Khon Kaen on Monday. Photo courtesy of Ekkalak

Flashes of fury in Khon Kaen

Jun 26. 2019

Afghanistan: then and now

Jun 25. 2019

Remnants of a recent past

Jun 23. 2019

The artwork “Life Dress” (2018) by Barcelonaborn and Amsterdam based artist Alicia Framis. /EPA-EFE

Protesting the ‘rape culture’

Jun 23. 2019

Snoopy gets to hang out

Jun 21. 2019

Tradition juxtaposed with the contemporary

Jun 20. 2019

The ingenuity of two countries on show

Jun 18. 2019

Artful days at the W

Jun 17. 2019

Filipino collector Maria Clara Camacho chats with Apinan Poshayananda in front of Yayoi Kusama’s polkadot masterpiece “Pumpkins” at BAB Box in Bangkok. Nation/Phatarawadee Phataranawik

More polka dots in the pocket

Jun 14. 2019

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