Arts & Culture

BANGKOK — Artists and art aficionados were relieved to learn an important space for thought-provoking art will reopen after renovations are completed in two years, though there was skepticism about what the future would bring.

BANGKOK — A schoolboy fashion icon will join an eco-fashion show which along with an art exhibition and other activities are aimed at protecting marine life from plastic pollution.

BANGKOK — Four Thais, three Koreans, two Japanese and two Taiwanese artists are coming to occupy a Charoen Krung gallery with their works for a month.

BANGKOK — Celebrate the Year of Rooster at events traditional, festive and outrageous this week.

BANGKOK — After a lifetime as steward to Bangkok’s past and a recent bout of fame for her efforts to save the Bangkok Folk Museum, former owner Waraporn Surawadee died Wednesday afternoon.

History was made across Tuesday's 89th annual Academy Awards nominations, where the retro musical "La La Land" reaped a record-tying 14 nominations and a wave of African-American films, led by the luminous coming-of-age portrait "Moonlight," resoundingly toppled two straight years of "so white" Oscars.

BANGKOK — There are 45 galleries and art spaces to choose from next week for Galleries Night, and then there’s a Patpong brothel-bar which for one night will purvey another form of culture.

BANGKOK — The Year of the Rooster will have less to crow about this year as for the first time in many years, Chinese New Year will not be celebrated on Yaowarat Road.

BANGKOK — The capital’s first pride parade in a decade has been postponed to the end of the year due to ongoing mourning for King Bhumibol.

BANGKOK — After having impressed readers in August with a 60-hour shopping marathon, The Big Bad Wolf Book Sale will be back in February for young bookworms.