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about 3 months ago (02/06/2024)
Following the furore over the United States Postal Service’s 2024 Year of the Dragon commemorative stamp, we look at rival stamp designs from Hong Kong, mainland China, Japan, Thailand and the Isle of Man....
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about 5 months ago (12/18/2023)
Tracey Emin recovering in Thailand after her ‘intestine nearly exploded’ | Tracey Emin | The Guardian Skip to main content Skip to navigation Skip to navigation Tracey Emin said her intestine ‘nearly exploded’ after an operation...
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about 5 months ago (12/15/2023)
Met Museum to Return 16 Looted Khmer Artifacts Skip to content Unknown artist, "Head of Buddha" (7th century), sandstone, 24 x 13 x 12 3/4 inches (all photos courtesy the Metropolitan Museum of Art) An ancient larger-than-life sandstone Buddha head, a bronze sculpture of a seated Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara, and a 10th-century goddess statuette from a remote temple complex are among 16 looted Khmer works currently in the process of repatriation back to Cambodia and Thailand, according to announcements by the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York (SDNY) released today, December 15...
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about 8 months ago (09/05/2023)
Artistic Freedom Report Thailand: Expansive and Politically Contentious | ArtsEquator Skip to content The key findings and analysis of artistic freedom in Thailand from the Southeast Asian Arts Censorship Database Project, 2010-2022...
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about 8 months ago (09/05/2023)
Artistic Freedom Report : Six Countries, 12 Years, 652 Violations | ArtsEquator Skip to content The key findings and analysis of violations of artistic freedom in Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam, Cambodia and The Philippines from the Southeast Asian Arts Censorship Database Project, 2010-2022...
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about 16 months ago (01/18/2023)
artn’t: Thailand’s Rebel Artists | ArtsEquator Skip to content Nutcha Tantivitayapitak and Sudarat Musikawong travel to Chiang Mai, Thailand to shine a light on the artn’t Collective, who are currently facing numerous legal charges for works that are viewed as critiquing the state...
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about 17 months ago (12/14/2022)
The Rod Stewart of Thailand, the Queen of Action Movies, a novelist persecuted by the government, seven National Artists and an iconoclastic Thai critic...
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about 17 months ago (12/14/2022)
A national living treasure, a rock musician and an activist poet | ArtsEquator Skip to content Pristine de Leon remembers the artists and cultural workers from the Philippines we lost in 2022...
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about 18 months ago (10/27/2022)
Wat Wanlayangkoon: A Life Given to Art and Justice | ArtsEquator Skip to content Sudarat Musikawong delves into the life of the late Wat Wanlayangkoon, an award winning novelist who left a lasting impact on the world of arts and activism in Thailand...
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about 20 months ago (09/08/2022)
Art in Exile: Burmese Artists in Thailand | ArtsEquator Skip to content Burmese artists make art in exile in Thailand, finding refuge and showcasing cross-border solidarity for artistic freedom...
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about 25 months ago (04/19/2022)
5 Advertisements That Are So Southeast Asian | ArtsEquator Skip to content Some advertisements are works of art...
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about 26 months ago (03/15/2022)
COVID-19 and the arts in Southeast Asia - 2 years on | ArtsEquator Skip to content In March 2020, we spoke to 10 arts and culture workers from across Southeast Asia, in a bid to capture the sentiments on the ground as it shifted during the early days of the pandemic...
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about 26 months ago (03/10/2022)
Podcast 101: M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2022 | ArtsEquator Skip to content ArtsEquator’s theatre podcast is back in 2022, with critics Lee Shu Yu, Matthew Lyon and Naeem Kapadia in a post-show conversation about three productions at M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2022: The Essential Playlist by The Second Breakfast Company (Singapore), Being: 息在 by 微 Wei Collective and Collaborators (Singapore) and OK Land by Circle Theatre (Thailand)...
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about 28 months ago (01/13/2022)
Critics Live (on Telegram! ): M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2022 | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints Daniel Teo / The Second Breakfast Company / Rinrada Pornsombutsatien January 13, 2022 Critics Live! is a critics-led programme series created by ArtsEquator to give arts audiences an insight into how critics formulate their responses to performances....
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about 30 months ago (11/22/2021)
ANCER Lab 03 Manila: How arts managers are surviving COVID-19 | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints Mah Jun Yi and Low Pey Sien November 22, 2021 By Wennie Yang (1,200 words, 4-minute read) Pandemic restrictions have put arts and cultural workers and institutions in a bind: choosing between sustaining their missions at times of a global pandemic or ceasing operations altogether...
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about 32 months ago (09/29/2021)
Performance Making during a Pandemic: Of Innovation, Form and Embeddedness | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints Kornkarn Rungsawang September 29, 2021 By Adriana Nordin Manan (1,000 words, 3-minute read) If arts panel discussions are meant to reflect the times, “Critical Responses to Performance-Making in A Post-Pandemic World” positioned itself well: at this stage of the pandemic, it was less about open-ended contemplation of how the performing arts can retain vitality amidst the prohibitive circumstances, and more about sharing examples of performances that exemplify the act of moving ahead despite the barriers...
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about 32 months ago (09/17/2021)
BIPAM 2021: Delight, despair, dialogue and the despot | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints September 17, 2021 By Nabilah Said (1,800 words, 6-minute read) I’ve never actually attended the Bangkok International Performing Arts Meeting (BIPAM)...
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about 37 months ago (05/01/2021)
Podcast 87: Southeast Asian Producers | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints May 2, 2021 Earlier this year Producers SG launched the Producers SG Directory , an online directory of independent producers and arts managers working in Singapore and around Southeast Asia, which it hopes can become a starting point for future collaborations and projects in the region...
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about 43 months ago (10/13/2020)
10 Things You Didn't Know About Dikir Barat | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Joy Ho / Jawn October 13, 2020 Most Singaporeans recognise traditional artforms such as Bharatanatyam, wayang kulit and wushu...
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about 44 months ago (09/23/2020)
Scene and Heard: Ritirong Jiwakanon, Theatre Designer | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Ritirong Jiwakanon September 24, 2020 (1,350 words, 5-minute read) My name is Ritirong Jiwakanon...
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about 51 months ago (03/09/2020)
Thanapol Virulhakul's "The Retreat": Dance, Uncontained | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles March 9, 2020 By Amitha Amranand (1,350 words, 5-minute read) Thai dancer-choreographer Thanapol Virulhakul is certainly not the first artist to wonder whether art could become more of a part of our daily life nor to attempt through his art to make it more so...
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about 52 months ago (01/16/2020)
20 Arts and Cultural Festivals to Visit in Southeast Asia in 2020 | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Sunitha Janamohanan January 16, 2020 It’s the year 2020 and the world is rife with new Instagram filters, hashtag 2020vision (yes, we get it) and the perennial “new year, new me” declarations...
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about 55 months ago (11/08/2019)
Progress at work: "Forward Shift" at da:ns festival | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Bernie Ng November 8, 2019 By Bernice Lee (1,507 words, 7-minute read) Forward Shift , a new platform for works-in-progress within Esplanade’s da:ns festival, begins with much fanfare...
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about 55 months ago (10/23/2019)
BACC: Whose art centre is it anyway? | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Reuters via South China Morning Post October 23, 2019 By Siriwat Pokrajen (1,180 words, 6-minute read) Anyone following the news about the Thai art scene must have already known about all the rough storms the Bangkok Art and Culture Centre (BACC) has been sailing through in the past couple of years...
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about 59 months ago (07/11/2019)
Podcast 61: The Media Landscape in Thailand | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Asian Arts Media Roundtable July 11, 2019 Duration: 20 min In our latest podcast, Thai theatre critic Amitha Amranand gives a comprehensive overview of the media landscape in Thailand, discussing the impact of the political and legal system on the arts and the paradoxical freedom that arts journalists have in the country...
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about 68 months ago (09/18/2018)
On The Level with Theatre Students of Taiwan and Thailand (via The Nation) | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles September 19, 2018 A new Taiwan-Thailand drama school collaboration is as delectable as pineapple tarts...
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about 68 months ago (09/18/2018)
Biennale seen posing challenges for artists (via The Nation) | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles September 18, 2018 The Bangkok Art Biennale beginning on October 19 will have as its theme “Beyond Bliss”...
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about 69 months ago (08/30/2018)
"Pratthana: A Portrait of Possession": Of Politics and Desire Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Photo: Tananop Kanjanawutisit August 30, 2018 By Amitha Amranand (1225 words, six-minute read) Everyone is always watching and being watched in Pratthana: A Portrait of Possession , the latest play by Japanese director Toshiki Okada...
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about 71 months ago (07/12/2018)
Who pays for art? (via Bangkok Post) | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Radar July 12, 2018 Should museums be funded by the state or by private sponsors? The question looms large with the current problems at Bangkok Art and Culture Centre (BACC), the largest publicly-funded art gallery in the country — and with the rise of many private galleries that seem to flourish with the burgeoning art scene....