Author Archives: dbv

march 1–15, 2014

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Books

  • Lydia Peelle, Reasons for and Advantages of Breathing
  • Alberto Moravia, Paradise, translated by Angus Davidson
  • Edmund White, Chaos: A Novella and Short Stories
  • Philip Short, Pol Pot: The History of a Nightmare
  • Paul Metcalf, Both

Films

  • Tell Them Anything You Want: A Portrait of Maurice Sendak, directed by Lance Bangs & Spike Jonze
  • This Gun for Hire, dir. Frank Tuttle
  • Her, dir. Spike Jonze
  • The Lego Movie, dir. Phil Lord & Christopher Miller

Exhibits

  • “Radiation: Art and Queer Ideas from Bangkok and Manila, Un-Compared,” Chulalongkorn University Art Center
  • “Scot Cotterell: Everything all at once now (and then some),” Speedy Grandma
  • “Daniel Cordonnier: The Beauty of Peace,” Modern Gallery
  • “Wittawat Tongkeaw: Essence,” La Lanta Fine Art
  • “Hello World,” Thailand Creative & Design Center

silence

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“In terms of shaping a silent life this image raises some interesting questions – is the silence in the hearing or the speaking? If I keep a journal, say, with no intention of ‘transmitting’ its content to anyone ever, is that a more silent activity than writing this book in the hope that you will read it and head what I have to say? Is writing, or even reading, which use language but not noise, ‘silent’ in any case?”

(Sara Maitland, A Book of Silence, p. 27.)

february 1–14, 2014

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Films

  • Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa, directed by Jeff Tremaine

Exhibits

  • “Andrew J. West: Three Worlds,” BACC
  • “Concept Context Contestation: Art and the Collective in Southeast Asia,” BACC
  • “Media/Art Kitchen: Reality Distortion Field,” BACC
  • “Pradi Tungpasartwong: Confrontation: The Three Elements of Life,” Chulalongkorn University Art Centre
  • “Fernando Aceves Humana: Opening Wounded Eden,” Toot Yung Art Center
  • “Brand New 2013 Art Project,” WTF Bangkok

january 16–31, 2014

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Books

  • David Bellos, Is That a Fish in Your Ear? The Amazing Adventure of Translation
  • Aleksandar Hemon, The Book of My Lives
  • Aleksandar Hemon, The Question of Bruno
  • Henri Mouhot, Travels in Siam, Cambodia, Laos, and Annam
  • Lawrence Wright, Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, & the Prison of Belief
  • Norman Lewis, A Dragon Apparent: Travels in Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam

Films

  • The Sin of Harold Diddlebock, directed by Preston Sturges
  • Casanova Brown, dir. Sam Wood
  • Holiday, dir. George Cukor
  • Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife, dir. Ernst Lubitsch

Exhibits

  • “Alexface: The Underground Adventure,” Artery Post-Modern Gallery
  • “Poom Pachavanish: When I Was Just a Little Boy,” Number 1 Gallery
  • “Jackkrit Anantakul: Shape and Form,” Speedy Grandma

management is the problem

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“An agricultural people, efficiently tilling fertile soil – and one is reminded of the pre-Columbian Mayans – can live fairly comfortably on an aggregate of forty or fifty days labour a year. Inevitably, however, some organizing genius comes along to make sure that the spare three hundred days are occupied in impressive but largely wasteful undertakings.”

(Norman Lewis, A Dragon Apparent: Travels in Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam, p. 226.)

the name of rome

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“A circumstance worthy of remark is that the name of Rome is familiar to nearly all the Cambodians; they pronounce it Rouma, and place it at the western end of the world.”

(Henri Mouhot, Travels in the Central Parts of Indo-China: Siam, Cambodia and Laos during the Years 1858, 1859 and 1860, chapter XIV.)

january 1–15, 2014

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Books

  • Dashiell Hammett, The Dain Curse
  • Erwin Panofsky, Meaning in the Visual Arts
  • Dora & Erwin Panofsky, Pandora’s Box: The Changing Aspects of a Mythical Symbol
  • Siburapha, Behind the Painting and Other Stories, trans. David Smyth

Films

  • Qui êtes-vous, Polly Maggoo?, directed by William Klein
  • Аэлита (Aelita), dir. Yakov Protazanov
  • Monsieur Verdoux, dir. Charles Chaplin
  • Antonijevo Razbijeno Ogledalo, dir. Dušan Makavejev
  • Cinemania, dir. Angela Christlieb & Stephen Kijak
  • Mr. Freedom, dir. William Klein
  • Le Couple témoin, dir. William Klein
  • The Glass Key, dir. Stuart Heisler
  • The Freshman, dir. Fred C. Newmeyer & Sam Taylor