Arts & Culture

BANGKOK — Fans of the city’s largest downtown art center submitted a petition Wednesday demanding a clear explanation behind the recent expulsion of the gallery’s director.

BANGKOK — If following Ryan Gosling’s Officer K through 2049 California whet your appetite to see the original Tears in Rain monologue in Bangkok, a city more “Blade Runner” than Los Angeles, next month is your chance.

BANGKOK — A primetime soap portraying a Burma-like kingdom has drawn the ire of some in Myanmar who are demanding it be pulled off the air.

BANGKOK — Only a few days after a stenciled mural mocking the junta’s second-in-command appeared over Sukhumvit Road, the artist behind it has gone dark after saying he was being hunted by the authorities.

BANGKOK — The striking images of Shakespeare’s Ophelia floating in a brook embraced by a Thai character from a Ramakien epic and Jesus and his apostles in Da Vinci’s “The Last Supper” turned into Buddha and his disciples are recent collages by a graphic designer an upcoming Friday exhibition.

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 — “Thai society doesn’t have rights or wrongs, it doesn’t matter if you hit someone with a car and send them to the morgue.”

BANGKOK — As the immigration officer of an authoritarian country, smash the “visa denied” stamp onto passports of huddled masses waiting in line. As an agent for Big Brother, tap into phones and stalk social media accounts. As the pet cat of Iran’s first democratically elected prime minister, meow along as the CIA ignites a coup to end his reign.

BANGKOK — Despite intense discrimination, people of various sexual orientations and identities have become more visible in slowly-liberalizing Myanmar.

Thursday concluded a primetime soap series glorifying His Majesty the Late King, with multiple storylines blending fact and fiction.