New spin-offs from some of our favorite restaurants and the most exciting Mexican opening in ages. Here's where you should be eating in the coming weeks.
Kult is a Thai illustrator and street artist who focuses on unorthodox portrait sketches. His latest exhibition at the Bridge Art Space runs from Jan 26-Feb 16 as part of the Bukruk Art Festival. He will also be taking over Bangrak streets from Jan 24-29 at 10am-5pm to create wall art as part of the festival. Here, he talks us through his personal views on Bangkok.
This Jan 23-31 sees the return of Bukruk Urban Arts Festival, a 10-day project of public wall paintings, art exhibitions, artist talks, animated film screenings and an open-air music festival. This year's event, sponsored by European Union as part of a program to promote culture connection between EU countries and Asia, focuses on the bizarre and uncanny. Here's what's in store.
Starchitect Duangrit Bunnag, 49, landed himself in hot water not once, but twice late last year: firstly as an outspoken critic of the government’s proposed Chao Phraya River promenade project; and then for announcing its alleged plans to close Knowledge Management and Development (OKMD), the public organization which oversees TCDC. BK caught up with him to get the latest on these developments.