Wed, May 23, 2012 14:27:06 PM
Bangkok Post
Wed, May 23, 2012 14:27:06 PM
Bangkok Post
The Month of Bösendorfer, the first Bösendorfer Piano Festival in Thailand, is presented by Siam Music Yamaha to promote the perfection of Bösendorfer pianos, as well as to invite the audience to discover and appreciate the celebrated “Bösendorfer Touch” by pianists Dora Deliyska, Indhuon Srikaranonda, Artas Balakauskas and Sek Thongsuwan.
Actress Bongkot Kongmalai is no stranger to the front page. Her recent appearance in the spotlight, however, strays far from the usual showbiz melodrama or popping bosoms.
Here's the schedule for "Movie Talk", a screening of films selected by Songyote Waeohongsa, for May and June. The films will be shown every Thurs starting 5pm at the Rewat Buddhinan activity room, Thammasat University's Pridi Banomyong Library, Tha Phra Chan campus. Free admission.
Bangkok Art and Culture Centre presents "The 3rd Bangkok Triennale International Print & Drawing Exhibition", which showcases 30 award-winning art pieces, plus a selection of 216 works _ all by amateur and professional artists from around the world.
Discovery Channel's fascinating new series, Dealers, explores the world of high-stakes buying and selling as ordinary people try to sell just about anything imaginable. From a comic book collection to a Russian fighter plane, sellers present their treasured items for consideration to five of the world's most well-respected dealers, each with personal fortunes to spend.
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In terms of historical and cultural background, the Philippines uniquely stands out among other countries in Asia. And in the art scene of this region, Filipino artists deliver one-of-a-kind pieces that represent this archipelago country in a way viewers could never find anywhere else.
Watching Dreambox's Prisana: The Musical was like delicately nibbling on pastel-coloured sweets and sipping tea from a porcelain cup while cooing with your friends for hours on end. Well, three hours and forty-five minutes to be exact. Although this is a rather self-indulgent length for a fluffy romance, Prisana, for the most part, delighted.
Love and other nightmares filled the first half of the 65th Cannes Film Festival. There's post-Revolution love from Egypt, and the love that finds its final destiny, as love should, in death. There are the usual sidekicks of love, such as loneliness and the desire to be recognised, in the heart and in the flesh, in one's own territory and in others. It's both helpful and futile to try to find a common theme in the competition titles at the most frenzied and influential movie festival on Earth, but please allow me to indulge in the activity as a cure to the unusually wet weather that has rendered the mood rather gloomy in this war zone of film criticism.
Opposite Gallery presents "Post-Rapture", a cross between animation and slideshow by cartoonist, painter and illustrator Kathy MacLeod, who turned her 2005 short story of the same title into an illustrated work by marrying the words with the pictures she had been imagining for seven years.
