What a Long-Banned Film Reveals About Thailand’s Political Agenda
There’s more than meets the eye in Shakespeare Must Die. Max Crosbie-Jones unpicks the saga of the Thai film in light of a longstanding ban being overturned this year
How Photography Tells Lies
From AI-generated ‘promptography’ to dreamy sci-fi images, what constitutes truth when it comes to photography today?
New Thai PM spearheads economy-orientated 'soft power' drive
Paetongtarn Shinawatra has promised a creative boom, but critics point to daunting bureaucracy and confusing vision
James Prapaithong: How to Paint Emptiness
Inspired by Cézanne and Ozu, the artist’s smallscale works are masterstrokes in economy and ellipsis
Gone Walking (While Kicking a Stone for 900km)
How Chinese artist Cheng Xinhao explores his home province’s history, culture and psychogeography through long-distance foot journeys and related ‘performative madness’
Truong Cong Tung’s “The Disoriented Garden… A Breath of Dream”
Across the highlands of Vietnam, gourds have stored water, made music, and inspired legends for centuries.
Your Problem Is My Problem
Living Another Future at MAIIAM, Chiang Mai explores how land and people can be betrayed by the narratives told for it
Inside Korakrit Arunanondchai’s World After the Fire
At Bangkok Kunsthalle the artist addresses a burning planet, stuck in cycles of renewal and decay. Can art help us find order in it all?
Marisa Srijunpleang’s Flower of Love
Blooms With The Wind Blows at Hub of Photography, Bangkok takes an autoethnographic view of the natural world
Golden Boy goes home – but where is home, exactly?
The return of a bronze statue to Thailand and the reaction in neighbouring Cambodia shows the difficulty of allocating ancient artefacts to modern nation states
‘The Understory’ by Saneh Sangsuk Review
Sangsuk’s latest novel is part parable, part paean to the ‘forest ethics’ and natural world of the author’s youth
Right Where They Have Always Been
Why aren’t the literary scenes of Southeast Asia getting more regional and global traction?
Thailand Biennale 2023 Review
In the third edition, The Open World in Chiang Rai, sites of social, spiritual or museological significance are meaningfully disturbed
Thai filmmaker switches to fiction to reveal migrant realities
Nontawat Numbenchapol's debut feature 'Doi Boy' explores illegal border crossings
Thailand Biennale lands in the northern borderlands
Sprawling show will 'open up' historic parts of Chiang Rai province
The Razzle-Dazzle Art of Chalermchai Kositpipat
In the runup to Thailand Biennale in Chiang Rai, Max Crosbie-Jones pauses to consider the origins of one native son’s staggering cultural power
Provincial family tale challenges established Thai 'truths'
Uthis Haemamool's 'The Fabulist' pits small stories against grand narratives
Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit: The Clutter of Living
How the Thai filmmaker sets about empowering audiences to tackle the weight of memory
Send Thailand’s Holy Bronze Men Home
An examination of the West’s penchant for hoarding the artefacts of other cultures
‘How Many Worlds Are We?’ Well, It Depends
A group show at Jim Thompson Art Center attempts to decentre ‘geo-cultural perspectives’ on nature, spirituality and humanity
Uthis Haemamool Implicates Us All
The author’s episodic and propulsive novel, The Fabulist, targets Thailand’s historiography and back-slide into authoritarianism
Frieze Seoul director Patrick Lee on why the fair is a ‘platform for Asia’
Now an anchor for the city’s art week, Frieze returns with more regional galleries and a bigger events programme
How a Bangkok shrine became a gentrification battlefront
Students make a principled stand against university's property arm
The Push for the First Public Art Gallery in Thailand
A sprawling archival show, ‘Art-Thai-Time’ at Bangkok Art & Culture Centre unpacks Italian sculptor Silpa Bhirasri’s influence on Thai modern art
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