{"id":133204,"date":"2025-10-20T04:27:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T04:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/133204\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T04:27:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T04:27:15","slug":"french-artist-cries-foul-over-censorship-of-nude-mural-near-patpong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/133204\/","title":{"rendered":"French artist cries foul over censorship of nude mural near Patpong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The district office said it had checked with the hotel and was told that the hotel wanted to \u201ccorrect\u201d the mural, adding that the artist had been informed in advance.<\/p>\n<p>It added that after the mural \u201cwas completely corrected\u201d, the hotel management would contact the artist directly to explain.<\/p>\n<p>However, the district office later removed its post after many Thai social-media users pointed out that Tibayrenc had clearly said she was not informed beforehand. No further clarification has since been issued by the BMA.<\/p>\n<p>About the artist<\/p>\n<p>Myrtille Tibayrenc is a French artist, curator, and art-centre director based primarily in Thailand. Known for her figurative and provocative style, her work is inspired by Renaissance techniques and often explores human form and emotion.<\/p>\n<p>She frequently exhibits in both established galleries and unconventional public spaces across Thailand, where she is also known by her nickname \u201cMimi.\u201d<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The district office said it had checked with the hotel and was told that the hotel wanted to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":133205,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[267],"tags":[365,362,363,364,43444,366,18,117,40291,19,17,44949,79720,2577,79721],"class_list":{"0":"post-133204","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-artsdesign","12":"tag-bangkok","13":"tag-design","14":"tag-eire","15":"tag-entertainment","16":"tag-french","17":"tag-ie","18":"tag-ireland","19":"tag-mural","20":"tag-nude","21":"tag-painting","22":"tag-patpong"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}