Nikkei Asia • 14th January 2022

Updating Jim Thompson's legacy for the 21st century

Famed museum's new arts center highlights contemporary Thai and international art

ArtReview Asia • 1st December 2021

In Search of Thailand’s ‘Squid Game’

How many Thai dramas can break through the conservatively tapered social lens of the TV industry?

ArtReview Asia • 16th November 2021

Taiki Sakpisit: Subtle Politics Meets Boldly Experimental Cinema

The filmmaker uncovers the cyclical nature of Thailand’s troubled past

Nikkei Asia • 15th October 2021

Book review: 'Essential Desires' chronicles emergence of Thai contemporary art

Brian Curtin's illustrated survey traces internationalization and internal divisions

ArtReview Asia • 5th October 2021

The Art of Thai Comics

One man’s persistence has brought Thailand’s rich comics tradition to light – now we need to connect its spirit of critique and independence to current times

14th September 2021

The Real Cultural Appropriation: A History of Looting in Southeast Asia

In Southeast Asia the antiquities trade is under closer scrutiny than ever before, but if the region is to keep hold of and preserve its heritage, there’s a long way further to go

ArtReview • 6th August 2021

‘Artists Shouldn’t Have To Create Art for Clean Air’

Art for Air in Chiang Mai took aim at the air pollution which has turned a charmed city into a cautionary tale for Anthropocene-era textbooks

ArtReview Asia • 1st July 2021

Abhijan Toto: How Curators Can Learn from Protesters

Decentralised, self-directed, hyperlocal and globally linked – new ways of working together outside of the constant circulation of the artworld

ArtReview • 17th February 2021

‘Why Are They Here?’ – Bangkok Art Biennale Review

The exhibition is at its best when artworks appear to disrupt the event’s sweeping therapeutic narrative

Design Anthology • 15th February 2021

Indian restaurant Gaa Relocates to a Classic Thai House

Architectkidd channels the celebrated modern Indian restaurant Gaa’s nonconformist nature

Nikkei Asia • 12th February 2021

Retail king resurrects a slice of old Bangkok

How Thailand's Central Group returned to its roots on Bangkok's first paved street

ArtReview Asia • 30th December 2020

Lawrence Osborne's ‘The Glass Kingdom’ Review

Bangkok-based British author Lawrence Osborne’s new novel has much to say about the class divides that cleave Thai society

Nikkei Asia • 2nd December 2020

In 'The Glass Kingdom,' Bangkok is the star

Thailand-based author Lawrence Osborne on his first novel set in the capital

ArtReview Asia • 3rd November 2020

What’s Behind Northeast Thailand’s Grassroots Art Revolution?

The art scene in Thailand’s Isaan is building momentum through an emphasis on public participation in cultural production

Nikkei Asia • 25th September 2020

Bangkok Art Biennale vows to defy the pandemic

Show to open in October despite worldwide cancellations of artistic events

ArtReview Asia • 3rd September 2020

The Politics of Bangkok’s Motorcycle Taxis

A political history of the city’s striving ‘moto-sai’ – the thousands of rural-to-urban migrants who weave through the Thai capital’s teeming lanes

Design Anthology • 14th July 2020

A Taste of Nostalgia

Kiti Panit General Store in Chiang Mai makes its home in a teak mansion restored by its fifth-generation owner

ArtReview Asia • 19th June 2020

The Death of Leisure: Tulapop Saenjaroen’s ‘People on Sunday’

The Thai artist updates the pioneering 1930 German silent film for our hypercompetitive, productivity-fetishising times

Frieze • 29th November 2019

Flawed but Intermittently Captivating: The Sixth Singapore Biennale

Patrick D. Flores’s southeast Asia-focused exhibition is hopeful, in spite of its sometimes academic tenor

Frieze • 29th October 2019

Khvay Samnang Invokes Animist Spirits Against Environmental Exploitation

A review of ‘A Forest of Spirits’ at Nova Contemporary, Bangkok