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‘Drunken English lad’ destroys Bangkok Art Biennale buffalo

A “drunken” foreign tourist was blamed for destroying a public art installation in Bangkok over the weekend. 

A sculpture of a water buffalo called Kwai Calm (“calm buffalo”) was left in pieces after a British tourist attempted to climb atop it Friday night in front of the Samyan Mitrtown complex on Rama IV Road.

The sculpture, created by artist Maitree Siriboon, was part of the Bangkok Art Biennale running through February at 11 venues across Bangkok. 

The tourists were called out by the festival’s chief executive and artistic director himself, who called it a “sad day.”

Photo: Apinan Poshyananda/Facebook

“A sad day to report that Kwai Calm by Maitree Siriboon, whose albino water buffalo placed at Samyan Midtown so much loved and appreciated by passerby and art visitors, have been destroyed,” Apinan Poshyananda wrote on his Facebook on…

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