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
The Fight for Sam Yan Shrine
In central Bangkok, the looming demolition of a Chinese shrine is exposing ideological fault lines between powerless communities and profit-hungry developers
Art crime investigators close in on stolen Thai antiquities
Intrigue surrounds struggle with Western museums over return of smuggled Prakhon Chai statues
Thai Children’s Folktales That Subvert the Bedtime Story
A collection of reworked children’s stories from Thailand dismantle the moral disguises of these vernacular tales and embrace youthful imagination
Thailand’s Fractured Legacies of the Cold War
How can artists depict the lingering psychological aftermath of a period that stretches beyond comprehension?
Som Supaparinya’s Ode to Thailand’s Changing Waterways
The Thai artist’s work captures resilience and activism along the Mekong, contending with the country’s entanglement of power and ecology
Thai artists bring creativity to fight against pollution
Northern Thailand's 'Art for Air 2' extravaganza paints sobering picture of life without clean air
Kamin Lertchaiprasert: The Road to a ‘Spiritual Aesthetics’
Looking back on the artist’s life’s work which has come to draw from Buddhism, quantum mechanics, environmentalism and Asian arts & crafts
Book Review: I Am An Artist (He Said)
Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook plumbs the space between word and image – via postmodernism, macho artists, and Thailand’s ‘Art for Life’ movement
The Zany, Something-For-All Appeal of the Thai Film Archive
The twisted history of one of Thailand’s most generous and eclectic cultural institutions
Artist Mit Jai Inn: ‘My work is a process, a living condition, not painting’
His vivid, socially engaged work reflects on Thailand’s repressive politics and complex spirituality
Let Orawan Arunrak Be Your Guide
The artist’s sojourns and social engagements prompt slow considerations of fast lives, finding selfhood amid movement
‘Ghost:2565’ Review: The Spectre of Something Better
Live without Dead Time looks for revivification and mobilisation against an all-encompassing sense of cynicism
Bangkok Art Biennale 2022, “CHAOS : CALM”
The titles for the first two editions of the Bangkok Art Biennale (BAB) were catchy rhetorical constructions that signposted a sanguine worldview
Thasnai Sethaseree’s Uncontainable Forms
Cold War: the mysterious at MAIIAM, Chiang Mai attempts to capture the felt plebeian texture of Thai political history
Why Collective Practice in Thailand is Under Threat
And is the real truth that it is as innocuous as it is important?
Book Review: Memories of the Memories of the Black Rose Cat
Veeraporn Nitiprapha's second novel pits maladjusted characters against a land teeming with ‘natural aberrations’
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