Nikkei Asia • 23rd November 2023 Provincial family tale challenges established Thai 'truths' Uthis Haemamool's 'The Fabulist' pits small stories against grand narratives
ArtReview Asia • 20th November 2023 Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit: The Clutter of Living How the Thai filmmaker sets about empowering audiences to tackle the weight of memory
ArtReview Asia • 30th October 2023 Send Thailand’s Holy Bronze Men Home An examination of the West’s penchant for hoarding the artefacts of other cultures
ArtReview • 2nd October 2023 ‘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
ArtReview Asia • 27th September 2023 Uthis Haemamool Implicates Us All The author’s episodic and propulsive novel, The Fabulist, targets Thailand’s historiography and back-slide into authoritarianism
Financial Times • 1st September 2023 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
Nikkei Asia • 23rd August 2023 How a Bangkok shrine became a gentrification battlefront Students make a principled stand against university's property arm
ArtReview Asia • 18th August 2023 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
Design Anthology • 17th August 2023 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
Nikkei Asia • 10th August 2023 Art crime investigators close in on stolen Thai antiquities Intrigue surrounds struggle with Western museums over return of smuggled Prakhon Chai statues
ArtReview Asia • 28th July 2023 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
ArtReview Asia • 26th June 2023 Thailand’s Fractured Legacies of the Cold War How can artists depict the lingering psychological aftermath of a period that stretches beyond comprehension?
ArtReview Asia • 19th June 2023 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
Nikkei Asia • 21st April 2023 Thai artists bring creativity to fight against pollution Northern Thailand's 'Art for Air 2' extravaganza paints sobering picture of life without clean air
ArtReview Asia • 20th April 2023 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
ArtReview Asia • 17th February 2023 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
ArtReview Asia • 17th January 2023 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
Financial Times • 5th January 2023 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
ArtReview Asia • 15th December 2022 Let Orawan Arunrak Be Your Guide The artist’s sojourns and social engagements prompt slow considerations of fast lives, finding selfhood amid movement
ArtReview • 9th December 2022 ‘Ghost:2565’ Review: The Spectre of Something Better Live without Dead Time looks for revivification and mobilisation against an all-encompassing sense of cynicism
e-flux Criticism • 8th December 2022 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
ArtReview Asia • 18th October 2022 Thasnai Sethaseree’s Uncontainable Forms Cold War: the mysterious at MAIIAM, Chiang Mai attempts to capture the felt plebeian texture of Thai political history
ArtReview Asia • 11th October 2022 Why Collective Practice in Thailand is Under Threat And is the real truth that it is as innocuous as it is important?
ArtReview Asia • 10th August 2022 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’