Arts & Culture

Tuesday, November 24, 2020

Arts & Culture

Iconsiam to light up New Year with epic firework extravaganza

Iconsiam will ring in the New Year on the banks of the Chao Phraya with "Amazing Thailand Countdown 2021" on December 31 at River Park.
Ever heard of a babysitter ghost? Every Thai child has one

All Hallows’ Eve or All Saints’ Day was an ancient pagan holiday held to ward off evil spirits, but is now marked as Halloween – the day when people dress up in fantastical costumes and children go “trick or treat” to collect sweets.
Chinese artwork sells for record price of $77m

The Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) painter Wu Bin's long scroll Ten Views of a Fantastic Rock was sold for 512.9 million yuan ($76.6 million) at the 15th Anniversary Celebration of Beijing Poly Auction on Sunday, marking the highest auction price for ancient Chinese artworks.
Escaping the bad news cycle

Henry David Thoreau used to make fun of people like us.
Much of America has stopped celebrating Columbus Day, but the explorer remains revered in Italy

ROME - While many Christopher Columbus statues were toppled this year in the United States - dragged into Baltimore's Inner Harbor, beheaded in Boston - the towering marble monument to the explorer in his hometown, Genoa, Italy, is disturbed only by pigeons.

Iconsiam to light up New Year with epic firework extravaganza

Ever heard of a babysitter ghost? Every Thai child has one

Part of Ming Dynasty painter Wu Bin's long scroll entitled Ten Views of a Fantastic Rock. [Photo Credit: China Daily]

Chinese artwork sells for record price of $77m

Escaping the bad news cycle

A statue of Christopher Columbus is dumped into a lake in Richmond, Va. MUST CREDIT: Washington Post photo by John McDonnell

Much of America has stopped celebrating Columbus Day, but the explorer remains revered in Italy

People sit on the steps at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City on Aug. 29, 2020. MUST CREDIT: Bloomberg photo by Nina Westervelt.

Museums sell Picasso and Warhol, embrace diversity to survive

Nobel Prize in literature awarded to Louise Glück

Dovumentary, panel discussion on Oct 10 to reinforce EU campaign to end death penalty

Emily Jungmin Yoon (Yolimwon)

Connecting ‘comfort women’ and present-day experience through the eyes of a Korean immigrant

Mouawad to unveil Miss Universe Thailand’s Bt3.5m diamond crown

Participants look at the works on display at the Zaha Museum in Seoul during 2019 Korea Art Week.

2020 Korea Art Week to kick off Thursday

An exhibition marking the 600th anniversary of the completion of the construction of the Forbidden City opens in Beijing on Thursday. [Photo by Jiang Dong/China Daily]

Forbidden City's 600 years focus of show

Exhibition offers insights into the renaissance works of princes Damrong and Narisara

James Seet - Sabi no.14, 2020, Ceramics, 31 x 17 x 29 cm

Zen and the art of clay in KL

Take in 80 years of Thailand Post history via a virtual exhibition

Somtow Sucharitkul, founder of Siam Sinfonietta

Mahler to bring light after Covid darkness at Thailand Cultural Centre

Cambodian makeup artist Apple (left) with Charli Hueston as the ‘Apsara Robot’. Courtesy of Dillon Morningstar

Cambodian artist finds Hollywood success

Photo: Screengrab via Matterport

An interactive virtual exhibition that reflects the diversity of Himalayan culture

Phichit monks revive old tradition of beating drums at twilight

Trump's niece can publish and promote her book about president and his family, judge says

Putin's People
Photo by: FarrarStraus and Giroux — handout

Book World: How Putin pushed aside the oligarchs and made Russia his own

Clifford Price or Goldie.

Renowned British DJ launches Bangkok’s first gallery with a difference

America through Foreign Eyes

Book World: What's gone wrong in America? An outsider explains, and offers a warning.

Changing times, changing traditions

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