Thailand Biennale 2023 Review: Syncretic SpiritMax Crosbie-JonesArtReview Asia20 March 2024The third edition, ‘The Open World’ in Chiang Rai, explores how sites of social, spiritual or museological significance are meaningfully disturbed
The Razzle-Dazzle Art of Chalermchai KositpipatMax Crosbie-JonesArtReview Asia30 November 2023In the runup to Thailand Biennale in Chiang Rai, Max Crosbie-Jones pauses to consider the origins of one native son’s staggering cultural power
Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit: The Clutter of LivingMax Crosbie-JonesArtReview Asia20 November 2023How the Thai photographer and filmmaker sets about empowering audiences to tackle the weight of memory
Send Thailand’s Holy Bronze Men HomeMax Crosbie-JonesArtReview Asia30 October 2023An examination of the West’s penchant for hoarding the artefacts of other cultures
‘How Many Worlds Are We?’ Well, It DependsMax Crosbie-JonesArtReview02 October 2023A new group show at Jim Thompson Art Center, Bangkok attempts to decenter ‘geo-cultural perspectives’ on nature, spirituality and humanity
Uthis Haemamool Implicates Us AllMax Crosbie-JonesArtReview Asia27 September 2023The author’s episodic and propulsive novel, ‘The Fabulist’, targets Thailand’s historiography and back-slide into authoritarianism
The Push for the First Public Art Gallery in ThailandMax Crosbie-JonesArtReview Asia18 August 2023A sprawling archival show, ‘Art-Thai-Time’ at Bangkok Art & Culture Centre unpacks Italian sculptor Silpa Bhirasri’s influence on Thai modern art
