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
Profiles
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
Taiki Sakpisit: Subtle Politics Meets Boldly Experimental Cinema
The filmmaker uncovers the cyclical nature of Thailand’s troubled past
In 'The Glass Kingdom,' Bangkok is the star
Thailand-based author Lawrence Osborne on his first novel set in the capital
On Familiar Ground
Award-winning architect Boonserm Premthada is
a proud product of his humble circumstances and local environment
a proud product of his humble circumstances and local environment
Minds and Misdemeanours
Known for using dance to explore the human psyche, DUJDAO
VADHANAPAKORN is now trying to disarm it
VADHANAPAKORN is now trying to disarm it
Close to Home
One of Thailand’s most well-travelled artists, Arin Rungjang is also one of its most rooted.
Dressing Up Stories: Jakkai Siributr
A profile of Thailand's leading contemporary artist working primarily with textiles
Sounding Out Udomsak Krisanamis
The taciturn artist agrees to a rare interview in his Chiang Mai studio
Fleeing the Jungle
Speaking at his Chiang Mai home, the visionary auteur Apichatpong Weerasethakul reveals why, when it comes to his feature films, he’s chosen to boycott his own country
What Lies Beneath: Huang Yong Ping
Huang Yong Ping's installations are brain-teasers that never resolve. They fuse esoterica from East and West, past and present, in an attempt
to comment on the world and our place in it.
to comment on the world and our place in it.
The Peacemaker: Vincent Van Duysen
Don’t be fooled by the hard-man exterior; Vincent Van Duysen is Belgium's conjuror of calm. Sober yet spirited interiors. Serene homes and light- lled of ces. Monumental tables. These are...
Navin Rawanchaikul’s Home Truths
Navin Rawanchaikul’s Chiang Mai retrospective is a must-see celebration of a colourful career, but behind the self-possession lurks a mid-career artist’s nagging self-doubt
The Importance of Being Iris
Meet a true American original: the one, the only Iris Apfel. For the past nine decades she has been forging her own idiosyncratic style – a style that has, along...
The Spectator: Francesco Vezzoli
Teary-eyed Italian artist Francesco Vezzoli made his name satirising the vainglorious worlds of international fame and celebrity. But an exciting new direction finds him ditching his Rolodex and returning home.
Still Cooking: Rirkrit Tiravanija
Internationally lauded Thai artist Rirkrit Tiravanija might not be staging as many of his famous cook-ups, but his art continues to offer us food for thought.
The Thinker: Oki Sato
For Oki Sato, the clean-cut posterboy for top Japanese design firm Nendo, the unexamined life is hardly worth living.
