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Time Out
2 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Time Out
Why is Bangkok suddenly obsessed with giant sculptures?
It seems like massive sculptures are having a moment in Bangkok. Over the past year, Bangkok has been riding a wave of oversized art. From KAWS' lounging Holiday figure at Sanam Luang to the Squid Game dolls near Giant Swing and a Stitch presiding over Iconsiam, giant installations have been popping up across the city like it's a sculpture scavenger hunt. Next up it's the turn of a certain brown panda. The Yimu Art Exhibition has landed at Iconsiam, featuring a crew of giant inflatable characters by rising Chinese artist Leo Huang and with them, a much-needed dose of softness in a fast-paced world. Front and centre is Seven, whose main hobbies seem to be eating well, chilling hard and spreading joy. With legs kicked out, a belly that looks like it's had one too many dumplings and a face of total bliss, Seven embodies what Huang calls the 'philosophy of the round belly' – a reminder that happiness can be as simple as a good meal and a quiet moment. Inspired by the creatures of China's Qinling Mountains, Seven is part of Huang's Guardians of the Loong series and arrives in Bangkok to celebrate 50 years of Thai-Chinese friendship. Close by at Terrace Hal l, you'll find Hippo Go!, a bubblegum-pink hippo mid-climb, radiating determination and innocence like it's about to audition for an animated comeback. Together, the characters showcase the artist's whimsical world, where animals reflect human emotions and everyday spaces form a playful fantasyland. It's more than just giant inflatables – take a stroll to Arts Way on the M floor, where you'll find a thoughtfully curated shop filled with collectible art toys and designs. Discover creations featuring Huang's beloved characters, including Hello! Bear and the Guardians of the Loong crew. Huang's characters exist through cross-media art, blending storytelling, sculpture and design to explore the connections between people, nature and urban life. His portfolio includes monumental public installations, art toys and designed products that bring his characters to life in both large-scale and everyday settings. This larger-than-life sculpture exhibition proves that when it comes to this kind of showcase, Bangkokians are always up for it. Well, a large part of the appeal might just be the Instagram effect. These mega-installations are crowd magnets – easy content, free entertainment and a clever way for public spaces to attract foot traffic in a city that's constantly craving its next photogenic distraction. This surge of playful public art signals that Bangkok's creative scene is just beginning to flourish. The next wave will likely spotlight interactive installations, reminiscent of those in the soon-to-open Jurassic World: The Experience. Looking ahead, we can expect even more international exhibitions to find their way to the heart of the capital.
Daily Mail
6 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Brooklyn Beckham looks glum as he waits for wife Nicola Peltz in a changing room on shopping trip
Brooklyn Beckham looked glum as he waited for his wife Nicola Peltz to try on clothes during a recent shoppign trip. The amateur chef, 26, who is embroiled in a rift with his family, cut a casual figure as he posed for selfies in a changing room while waiting for Nicola. Brooklyn, the eldest of the Beckham children, cut a casual figure in a white printed T-shirt and dark trousers. He also sported a backwards black cap as he showed off his array of arm tattoos in the snaps. Alongside the photos, shared to Instagram, he wrote: 'Me waiting for my Mrs to try on clothes haha'. The amateur chef, 26, who is embroiled in a rift with his family, cut a casual figure as he posed for selfies in a changing room while waiting for Nicola It comes after Brooklyn spent the week on a £85million superyacht called Project X, which is chartered for £1.2million per week. The 260ft luxury vessel was rented by Nicola's billionaire parents, who holidayed with the couple and the rest of the Peltz clan. Just two days after the family jetted back to the U.S. after their European getaway, Brooklyn's parents arrived in the same dock on their £16million yacht, Seven. David, 50 and Victoria, 51, bought their 130ft boat in 2022, after previously buying a smaller vessel by the same name the year before. Speaking about the financial rivalry, a source told The Sun: 'Brooklyn's yacht dwarfs the one owned by David and Victoria. It's a financial flex. 'Their relationship is beyond soured now but Brooklyn has really landed on his feet. Nicola and her parents, Nelson and Claudia, are his family now. And he's clearly enjoying the spoils.' Project X boasts a master suite, a VIP cabin, five double rooms as well as two twin cabins, while being able to hold a crew of 28 to run the boat. Special features include a huge glass-sided swimming pool, a wellness suite, a spa and a jaw-dropping 360-degree sundeck. Meanwhile, the Beckham's smaller yacht has five cabins in comparison, sleeping ten people and seven crew members. Their boat features a spa bath on the upper deck, as well as 65ft garage, plenty of water toys and a jet ski to keep the family entertained. Seven is named after David's iconic football shirt number as well as their daughter Harper's middle name. They previously owned a £5million boat but upgraded it less than a year later. David and Victoria are away with their other three children, Romeo, 22, Cruz, 20 and Harper, 14. They narrowly avoided an awkward run-in with estranged son Brooklyn and his wife Nicola in the celebrity hotspot. They arrived in the south of France for their annual summer break, where their eldest son had been spotted holidaying on his billionaire father-in-law's boat nearby. David and Victoria were joined on the lavish getaway by the rest of their children; Harper and Romeo while youngest son Cruz soaked up the sun elsewhere in St Tropez with girlfriend Jackie Apostel, 30. Romeo and Harper were first of the family to be spotted in St Tropez on Thursday, just 48-hours after Brooklyn met with godfather Elton John, who was also holidaying in the South Of France, for lunch where the singer 'attempted to end ongoing family feud'. The once close-knit Beckham family has been thrown into turmoil in recent months, amid claims Brooklyn has become increasingly estranged from his famous parents after failing to attend any of his father 50th birthday celebrations in May. It was also revealed that Brooklyn and Nicola's Instagram accounts no longer follow his younger brothers in the latest family drama. Meanwhile amid their trip Nicola gushed and branded her hunky husband 'her everything' Sir Elton, who has been friends with the Beckhams for three decades, reportedly took the opportunity to 'say his piece' about the feud as he wined and dined the young couple. According to The Sun, Sir Elton 'briefly' spoke about the family's feud in the hope Brooklyn would patch things up with his parents, and footage of the outing shared on social media showed the pair shaking hands. Speaking about Elton's attempts to play peacekeeper in the row, a source said: 'Elton is the showbiz equivalent of Switzerland. He's utterly neutral in this row. 'Elton of old may have relished in taking sides - in this case his young godson, Brooklyn - but two years off his 80th birthday, he's a man who has seen and done it all. He just wants everyone to be happy. 'There is no side-taking as such; he simply adores his godson, and really has a laugh with Nicola who he thinks has a great sense of humour. He wants to look after them in his role as 'spiritual adviser' as a godfather, it's a role he takes seriously. 'Elton and David think the situation is terribly sad, and has gently suggested to all involved that life is short - to patch things up.' The source added Elton is 'adamant he doesn't want to stick his nose in' the feud, he just simply 'wants peace'. Sir Elton is also said to have generously picked up the entire bill, after dining on the restaurant's signature lobster linguine which comes in at an eye-watering £190. Brooklyn enjoyed a workout on the multi-million pound super Superyacht Nicola shared a slew of final holiday snaps from the couple's lavish trip before heading home to the US. In a snap shared to her Instagram Stories Nicola threw her arms around Brooklyn's neck as they smooched while watching a sunset. She later stunned in a black mini dress as she strutted her stuff on the dance floor before enjoying a lavish fireworks display. The heiress later showcased her jaw-dropping figure as she headed ashore and turned heads in a Chanel crop top which she teamed with a fluffy shrug, despite the scorching weather. Meanwhile another source has claimed that Nicola and Brooklyn will not feature in his mother forthcoming documentary series. The former Spice Girl will take centre stage in a new Netflix docuseries about her day-to-day life as creative director of the eponymous fashion and beauty brand she originally launched in 2008. The source told The Sun: 'The children hardly feature — it's simply not a case of Brooklyn and Nicola being cut, as they weren't in it to start with. 'This is very much a project focussing on Victoria's transaction from pop star to businesswoman and designer.'
The Australian
10 hours ago
- Entertainment
- The Australian
Nine reporter Tim Arvier quits Channel 9 for a top Crisafulli government job
They reckon you shouldn't believe everything you read ... unless, of course, you read it in the Media Diary. After all, we've been warning for months now that Nine's best Brisbane newsbreaker, Tim Arvier, was likely on the move and, indeed, he is. Diary can reveal the network's award-winning state political reporter has been headhunted by Queensland Premier David Crisafulli's government to head up its crisis communications network – where he will be tasked with, among other things, containing political scandals rather than exposing them. We hear the veteran news hound struggled with making the decision to leave the network where he first began his career as a cadet reporter in 2004, but ultimately decided he was ready for a new challenge and the fancy deputy director-general title that apparently comes along with it. Of course, the pay doesn't sound too bad either. When we first revealed the network's gun state political reporter might be eyeing off the exit at its Mt Coot-Tha studios back in May, and that if the news bosses at rival Seven rummage around down the back of the coach for about $300,000 a year, they might be able to convince him to change channels. Although we hear Seven did make some furtive inquiries about procuring Arvier's services, unfortunately they couldn't find quite enough spare change under the sofa cushions. Their loss was Crisafulli's gain, though, with the execs in at George Street happy to pass a hat around and come up with the desired result. Arvier is expected to spend the next couple of weeks working with young up-and-coming reporters at Nine before wrapping up at the network at the end of the month. Although he leaves on amicable terms, his departure will leave a massive void in the newsroom. Not only a popular member of staff, Arvier was Nine's most consistent newsbreaker and often cited as one of the key reasons people opted to tune in to Nine over Seven at 6pm. He was also its most experienced journo, having spent lengthy stints reporting for A Current Affair and as the network's European and then North American correspondent during his 20-year career at Nine. Indeed, Arvier was working in Minneapolis in the US when he was named Journalist of the Year at Queensland's Clarion media awards, while also picking up gongs for best broadcast interview and best TV news report for his coverage as civil unrest spread across the city in the wake of George Floyd's death. Nine's Queensland news boss, Brendan Hockings, told Diary he was disappointed to lose a journo and a mate of Arvier's calibre, but was confident he had enough rising stars in his newsroom to keep him on his toes in his new job. 'Tim and I started in the industry together around 20 years ago, and I've seen first hand how much he's poured into his journalism career,' he said when we tracked him down on Wednesday. 'We've spoken about this at length, so I know how Tim has agonised over leaving a profession and place he loves but, in the end, he feels the time is right to take on this new role. He leaves with our thanks and best wishes. 'Nine is Queensland's No.1 television news thanks to the strength of our team across the board. 'We have a very healthy stable of newsbreakers and I'm excited to watch them take up the challenge of holding the government to account.' And to be fair (and we always try to be), Hocko's not wrong – with the Brisbane newsroom thriving under him since he was made news director in January, the station's prime-time 6pm news bulletin ratings are up 21 per cent year on year for the first six months of 2025. Arvier confirmed the move not long after we first broke the news, saying after two decades at Nine, it was time for 'a bit of a change'. 'I'll be moving away from the day to day shenanigans of Queensland politics and heading to government department land for some new responsibilities, including heading up the Queensland Crisis Communications Network to oversee events like floods, cyclones and major police/emergency incidents,' he said on social media. 'I will miss working at Nine. It's a great place full of great people and I've made many lifelong friends amongst the camera teams, producers and editors. The newsroom is in great hands and I know it will continue to thrive.' Free-to-air rich list: the top 35 salaries in TV Read related topics: Nine Entertainment Steve Jackson is The Australian's media diarist. He has spent more than two decades working across the most-read mastheads and most-watched television current affairs programs in Australia and the United Kingdom. Wealth The Australian is launching Wealth, a dedicated digital-first section to help more Australians make smarter money choices. World A former Israeli prime minister has accused The New York Times of 'blood libel' after the NYT admitted a child in Gaza whom the masthead and other media outlets claimed was suffering 'severe malnutrition' had been diagnosed with pre-existing health conditions.
1News
11 hours ago
- Business
- 1News
'Show about nothing': Aussie PM taunted over US tariffs
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has been accused of being a "Seinfeld prime minister" as the opposition ramps up its rhetoric over the US tariffs issue. The Prime Minister has been compared with the famous 1990s "show about nothing", amid dwindling hopes Australia could secure a total tariff exemption. US President Donald Trump's deals with other nations have laid bare the limits of trade negotiations, with no countries receiving a better deal than Australia's 10% baseline tariff. And now Australian exporters faced the impost set on goods to the US being doubled, after Trump delivered an ominous warning on Tuesday. He implied the base rate, which applied to the goods of many countries, including Australia, could rise to 15-20%. ADVERTISEMENT Trump said his administration would soon notify about 200 countries of their new "world tariff" rate. "I would say it'll be somewhere in the 15-to-20% range," he said. "Probably one of those two numbers." Senior Labor government minister Clare O'Neil said Australia was continuing to argue to the US that it deserved beneficial treatment, given the two countries' long running alliance. "We want to get the best deal for our citizens — that's what our government is working towards every day," she told Seven's Sunrise program on Wednesday. But opposition foreign affairs spokeswoman Michaelia Cash said the government's approach had been a failure so far, given Albanese was yet to secure a face-to-face meeting with Trump. "The prime minister of Australia, Albanese, is becoming the Seinfeld prime minister — he's a show about nothing," she told Seven. "Other countries ... they are successfully negotiating trade deals that benefit their countries. ADVERTISEMENT "We now hear it could go 15%, it could go 20%. "I just remind the Australian people that when the coalition was last in government, we successfully negotiated a 0% tariff." Senator Cash was referencing the Seinfeld episode The Pitch, when characters Jerry and George pitched an idea for a "show about nothing" to TV executives - recreating how creators Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David came up with the show's concept. During Trump's first stint in office, Australia, under former Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, and several other countries secured tariff exemptions from the White House. No countries have secured total exemptions this time. The Government resolved one of Trump's grievances with Australia last week by lifting an effective ban on US beef imports. Canada on Wednesday morning, AEST, announced Australia also reopened market access for Canadian beef, ending a 22-year-old ban imposed following the discovery of mad cow disease.
Daily Mail
13 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Channel Seven is rocked by bombshell lawsuit from key Home and Away staff member
A veteran Home and Away scriptwriter whose name still appears on the credits of the long-running soap is the latest Seven employee to sue the network. Fiona Bozic, who has worked at Seven for more than 20 years, lodged a Fair Work claim last month in the Federal Court of Australia. Bozic filed a statement with the court under breach of general protections provisions and is being represented by Thrive Workplace Consulting & Legal. According to LinkedIn, Bozic is a script producer and scriptwriter for Seven on programs including Home and Away, and previously wrote for Network Ten's Neighbours. 'My responsibilities are broad and primarily focused on overseeing the creation of engaging, creative and compelling storylines,' her LinkedIn profile states. 'I have contributed to a variety of story themes that are appealing to diverse audiences, including domestic violence and mental health trauma. 'With responsibility of creating a detailed plot for five episodes a week, I am heavily involved in structuring episodes, creating characters and recruiting script department personnel who can add value to the process.' As part of her role, Bozic works closely 'with a range of internal stakeholders, including executives, promotions, script and production teams'. Bozic is credited as script producer in a Home and Away promotion for Lynne McGranger's upcoming farewell as Summer Bay matriarch Irene Roberts. McGranger's final scenes were shot in March and will be screened next month, bringing an end to Gold Logie-nominee's 33 years on the show. Bozic declined to discuss her specific claims against Seven when approached by the Daily Mail this week. A network spokeswoman said: 'As this matter is before the courts, Seven will not be commenting.' Bozic joins a long list of Seven employees to recently to take legal action against the network. Producer Matthew McGrane, who has worked at Seven for about 23 years - most recently on Sunrise - is currently suing his employer in the Federal Court. The exact details of McGrane's claim are unclear but it comes after he fell from his wheelchair and suffered terrible injuries while travelling from Seven's office in Sydney's Eveleigh to continue a shift at home. McGrane discussed the accident on the ABC's Four Corners program last August. He said his shift on the Sunrise program went until midnight every night, but he had reached an arrangement with management where he could leave at 9pm and finish his shift at home. The arrangement meant McGrane, who has used a wheelchair for more than 20 years, would be able to access buses before they stopped running at 11pm. Three months into the new schedule, however, he had a fall on his way to the bus. McGrane said he left the building at 9.30pm one night and while steering his wheelchair through the dark and rain hit a gap in the footpath. 'My wheels got caught. I came flying out, I landed extremely awkwardly, ended up breaking my lower arm,' he said. 'As I came out my face dragged along the pavement, I could feel my teeth scraping along the footpath because they'd actually gone through my lip. 'I was in agonising pain and I was howling like a dog. I'd actually ripped all the muscles off the bone. And they had to drill a hole into my arm to reattach the muscles.' McGrane told Four Corners that with just one functioning arm, he was trapped at home and unable to care for himself for 10 weeks. He filed a workers' compensation claim to pay for a carer. But although the injury happened while he was rostered on, Seven told his insurer there was no formal agreement allowing him to split his shift. A network spokesperson told the Daily Mail in April: 'Seven rejects the claims made by Mr McGrane and will defend its position in this matter.' 'As this is now before the courts, we are unable to comment further.' Journalist Amelia Saw launched Federal Court action against Seven under the Fair Work Act in September last year, claiming she was subjected to a hostile working environment at Spotlight in 2022. Seven 'strongly and categorically' rejected Saw's allegations and her claim was settled in January. Walkley Award-winning crime reporter Robert Ovadia commenced Federal Court proceedings for wrongful dismissal against Seven after he was sacked in June last year for allegedly inappropriate conduct. Ovadia, who denied any wrongdoing, eventually dropped that action due to the financial cost and emotional toll involved. Meanwhile, former Spotlight producer Taylor Auerbach is suing Seven for defamation in the Federal Court. Auerbach alleges the network made disparaging and false statements about his involvement in securing an interview with accused rapist Bruce Lehrmann, causing him to be shunned and vilified. Seven has said it will 'strenuously defend its position' in relation to Auerbach. McGrane's matter is set for an interlocutory hearing in August. Auerbach's case is listed for a case management hearing in October.
