With pretty impressive timing, I’ve arrived in Bangkok just as the Art Biennale has started. It is a city-wide, months-long show, spread over many venues, which I’m hoping to cover and review one by one. The theme of the biennale is “Angels and Mara” and explores the tensions between spirituality …
For just a week, there is a lovely Chanel pop-up in a glorious heritage building on Wukan Road. So, for anyone lucky enough to be in Shanghai right now, do please make the time to checkout both the ski-centric collection and a gorgeous building. Here’s a bit about the collection …
Yesterday, thanks to some enthusiastic Instagram posts that I’d seen, off we went to explore Happitat, a brand new, “massive 200,000-square-meter themed mixed-use destination that officially opened on August 21, 2026” (last bit is AI, so dunno if it actually needs quotation marks, but anyway…) Happitat is indeed massive, with different …
Bangkok’s lovely Museum Siam, which we visited a couple of years ago, has a very interesting temporary exhibition on at the moment. “Thai Dialogue: Foreign Quote” is a free exhibition, exploring Siam’s history, culture, and identity through the eyes, journals, and artefacts of foreign visitors—including merchants, diplomats, missionaries, and scholars—across different …
HOW is it possible that this exquisite little exhibition has not received massive coverage? I only heard about it last week from a Tweet (or was it an Instagram post?) but I haven’t read any reviews in the papers or online. Nor have I seen a single poster. Perhaps I’ve …
There is a wonderful exhibition currently showing at Delhi Art Gallery, featuring some of the beautiful drawings of Emily Eden. Emily was the unmarried sister of Lord Auckland, who was Governor-General of India from 1836-1842, and she accompanied him on his posting. We learn that Emily was “one of the …
Hmm. Where do I start? As a long-term, die-hard “Star Wars” fan (I saw Star Wars: Episode IV aka The Original, The First, The Best within days of its opening in 1977 in Paris)… Er, where was I? Oh yes, as a true fan, I was obviously very excited at …
All the trailers for the film “The Sheep Detectives” over the last few months were undeniably cute and appealing, so the real McCoy was an interesting and unexpected experience. Because although the film is indeed cute and very appealing, it is so many other things as well – realistic, humorous, …
Before going on my first ever visit to Hua Hin last week, my only image of the town was of the railway station. Not the town’s famous beaches nor its renowned gold courses, but the railway station. Realistically, of course, the beaches and the golf courses are the reason why …
