7th Bangkok Experimental Film Festival Review: Maximalist Proof
After a 13-year hiatus, BEFF returns as a collective display of artistic might
The Lofty Ambitions of Thailand’s New Art Forest
It’s fun to frolic amid art and nature in Thailand’s newly opened Khao Yai Art Forest, but it might yet take some time for this utopic enterprise to bloom
“Archival Time On Our Retina" review
One surprising legacy of the United States’ public diplomacy across Southeast Asia during the Cold War
How Sakon Nakhon Weavers are Spinning Threads into the Future
In the Thai province of Sakon Nakhon, artisanal natural dyes and textile traditions are inspiring a whole new aesthetic
How Thailand Became a Refuge for Displaced Myanmar Creatives
Artists at risk back home are finding solace and relative safety in Thailand’s remote corners and art communities
Bangkok Art Biennale 2024 Review: What, Exactly, Is Being Nurtured?
In Nurture Gaia, the glamour of the global overrides the lure of the local
Iola Lenzi’s “Power, Politics and the Street”
In December 2013, visitors to the Bangkok iteration of “Concept Context Contestation: art and the collective in Southeast Asia”
Ways of Living
A new show at Storage, Bangkok takes a range of subaltern, diasporic and postcolonial perspectives on home and belonging
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
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