Bangkok Governor Asawin Kwanmuang’s new plan for the city administration to run the Bangkok Art and Culture Centre (BACC) drew strong reactions on social media yesterday. As running an art centre requires expertise, artists and culture experts questioned the management skills of bureaucrats. These artists were part of a pioneering art movement who pushed previous Bangkok governors into building the Bt509-million art centre more than a decade ago. To avoid bureaucratic corruption, the non-profit Art and Culture Centre Foundation was later established to run the centre. As of Sunday noon, more than 3,200 supporters agreed to fight to free the art centre from the BMA and allow the Art and Culture Centre Foundation to continue running the centre.

Source: The Nation Bangkok May 13, 2018 06:11 UTC