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

Frieze • 30th September 2019

RIFTS: Thai contemporary artistic practices in transition, 1980s-2000s

A review of the Bangkok Art & Culture Center's succinct survey of scene-shaping Thai contemporary art.

ArtReview Asia • 20th September 2019

Aichi Triennale 2019: Taming Y/Our Passion

A review of the fourth Aichi Triennale in Nagoya, Japan.

Prestige Thailand • 1st September 2019

On Familiar Ground

Award-winning architect Boonserm Premthada is a proud product of his humble circumstances and local environment

Nikkei Asian Review • 21st July 2019

Found in translation

A new generation of translators are leading Thai contemporary authors out of the global margins.

Nikkei Asian Review • 5th June 2019

Dragons and Denim

Korakrit Arunanondchai's contribution to the Venice Biennale touches the spirit.