october 16–31, 2014

Books

  • Janet Hobhouse, The Furies
  • Tew Bunnag, Curtain of Rain
  • Georges Perec, I Remember, trans. Philip Terry & David Bellos
  • Calvin Tompkins, Living Well Is the Best Revenge
  • Susan Howe, Spontaneous Particulars: The Telepathy of Archives
  • Alex Kerr, Bangkok Found: Reflections on the City
  • Qiu Xiaolong, Death of a Red Heroine

Films

  • The Philadelphia Story, directed by George Cukor
  • L’écume des jours (Mood Indigo), dir. Michel Gondry
  • Adieu au langage (Goodbye to Language 3D), dir. Jean-Luc Godard
  • The Journey, dir. Keng Guan Chiu
  • Ernest et Célestine, dir. Stéphane Aubier, Vincent Patar & Benjamin Renner
  • The Underneath, dir. Steven Soderbergh

Exhbits

  • “Tetragon,” Bridge Art Space

october 1–15, 2014

Books

  • Giorgio Bassani, The Gold-Rimmed Spectacles, translated by Isabel Quigly
  • Barbara Comyns, Our Spoons Came from Woolworths
  • Barbara Comyns, The Vet’s Daughter
  • Walter Abish, Double Vision

Films

  • The Congress, dir. Ari Folman
  • Afternoon Delight, dir. Jill Soloway
  • Roar, dir. Noel Marshall
  • Im Staub der Sterne (In the Dust of the Stars), dir. Gottfried Kolditz

Exhibits

  • “Inson Wongsam: The Autonomous Spirit,” BACC
  • “Thai Charisma: Heritage + Creative Power,” BACC

september 16–30, 2014

Books

  • Flann O’Brien, The Hard Life
  • Peter Robb, Midnight in Sicily

Films

  • Copie Conforme (Certified Copy), directed by Abbas Kiarostami
  • F for Fake, dir. Orson Welles
  • Spalding Gray: Terrors of Pleasure, dir. Thomas Schlamme
  • Nightmare Alley, dir. Edmund Goulding
  • The Hoax, dir. Lasse Hallström
  • Cane Toads: An Unnatural History, dir. Mark Lewis
  • Cane Toads: The Conquest, dir. Mark Lewis

Exhibits

  • “Harit Srikhao: Present: Red Dream & Black Rites,” Kathmandu Photo Gallery
  • “Transmission,” Jim Thompson Art Center
  • “Hà Mạnh Thắng: Fading Dreams – Disintegrating Realities,” Thavibu Gallery

september 1–15, 2014

Books

  • Axel Madsen, Silk Roads: The Asian Adventures of Clara and André Malraux
  • Carol Hollinger, Mai Pen Rai Means Never Mind
  • W. A. R. Wood, Consul in Paradise
  • Ray Monk, Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius

Films

  • Fahrenheit 451, directed by François Truffaut
  • Schizopolis, dir. Steven Soderbergh
  • Sex, Lies, and Videotape, dir. Steven Soderbergh
  • Billy Liar, dir. John Schlesinger
  • 人再囧途之泰囧 (Lost in Thailand), dir. Xu Zheng

Exhibits

  • “Threshold,” Bridge Art Space
  • “Thanet Awsinsiri: Devi,” 100 Tonson Gallery
  • The Prasart Museum, Bangkok

august 16–31, 2014

Books

  • Tove Jansson, The True Deceiver, translated by Thomas Teal
  • Colm Toíbín, The Master
  • Vladimir Nabokov, The Defence
  • Lysandre C. Séraïdaris, King Bhumibol and the Thai Royal Family in Lausanne: Recollections of HM King Rama IX’s Tutor, trans. Jindarat Jumsai Na Ayudhya
  • George Orwell, Burmese Days

Films

  • Pretty Poison, dir. Noel Black

Exhibits

  • “Experimental Video Art Exhibition, Thai-European Friendship 2004–2014,” BACC
  • “MDIII: Fragility & Monumentality,” BACC
  • “Skyler Chen: Peach Blossom Valley,” Serindia Gallery
  • “Wasinburee Supanichvoraparch: Poperomia/Arin Rungjang: Golden Teardrop,” Siam Centre
  • “Krissadank Intasorn: The Remastered,” Number 1 Gallery
  • “Prawit Lumcharoen: Fake Work,” Number 1 Gallery
  • “Tanasan Kanakasem: Her,” Artery Post-Modern Gallery
  • “Elizabeth Preger: Here Are My Teeth: Black with Stars,” Kathmandu Photo Gallery
  • “Panya Vijinthanasarn/Andrew Stahl: Conversations: The Vivid Real,” Thavibu Gallery

august 1–15, 2014

Books

  • George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier
  • Thomas Disch, Camp Concentration
  • George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia
  • Pier Paolo Pasolini, The Scent of India, trans. David Clive Price
  • Alex. McClenaghan, Six Years in Heaven: A True Story of Human Credulity and Unexampled Devotion, Embracing a Complete Expose Of the Abominable Practices and Monstrous Professions of George Jacob Schweinfurth, the False Christ, Whose Main Heaven Is Near Rockford, Illinois, with a Biographical Sketch of This Most Remarkable Religious Pretender of the Century
  • Ken Kalfus, A Disorder Peculiar to the Country

Films

  • Blue in the Face, directed by Wayne Wang
  • A King in New York, dir. Charles Chaplin
  • Thelma & Louise, dir. Ridley Scott

Exhibits

  • “Marsden Hartley: The German Paintings 1913–1915,” LACMA
  • “Expressionism in Germany and France: From Van Gogh to Kandinsky,” LACMA
  • “John Altoon,” LACMA
  • “James Turrell: Ganzfeld,” LACMA
  • “Sam Durant: Proposal for White and Indian Dead Monument Transpositions, Washington, D.C.,” LACMA

july 16–31, 2014

Books

  • Geoff Dyer, Paris Trance
  • George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London
  • Lucy R. Lippard, Undermining: A Wild Ride through Land Use, Politics, and Art in the Changing West
  • Michel de Montaigne, Essays, trans. J. M. Cohen
  • Ronald Johnson, Ark
  • Tove Jansson, The Summer Book

Films

  • Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein, directed by Charles Barton

july 1–15, 2014

Books

  • Josef Albers, Interaction of Color
  • Paul M. Handley, The King Never Smiles: A Biography of Thailand’s Bhumibol Adulyadej

Films

  • 紅の豚 (Porco Rosso), directed by Hayao Miyazaki
  • Microcosmos: Le peuple de l’herbe, dir. Claude Nuridsany & Marie Pérennou
  • Stories We Tell, dir. Sarah Polley
  • The Red Shoes, dir. Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
  • God’s Country, dir. Louis Malle
  • 風立ちぬ (The Wind Rises), dir. Hayao Miyazaki
  • The African Queen, dir. John Huston
  • Los Angeles Plays Itself, dir. Thom Anderson

Exhibits

  • National Museum of Korea, Seoul
  • National Folk Museum of Korea, Seoul
  • “Korean Beauty: Two Kinds of Nature,” National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul
  • “Jesper Just: This Is a Landscape of Desire,” National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul
  • “Do Ho Suh: Home within Home within Home within Home within Home,” National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul

june 1–15 2014

Books

  • Emmett Williams, ed., An Anthology of Concrete Poetry
  • Geoff Dyer, The Missing of the Somme
  • Thomas Girst, The Duchamp Dictionary

Films

  • La grande bellezza, directed by Paolo Sorrentino
  • Ikárie XB-1, dir. Jindrich Polák
  • Das Schloss, dir. Michael Haneke
  • Postava k podpírání (Joseph Kilían), dir. Pavel Juráček & Jan Schmidt
  • Wer war Kafka?, dir. Richard Dindo