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Max Crosbie-Jones

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Bangkok, Thailand
As seen in: ArtReview, Financial Times, Nikkei Asia, Substack, EIN News, Frieze, Apollo The Internacional Art Magazine, Prestige, art-agenda, SilverKris, DestinAsian
Covers:  Contemporary art, art history, society, sustainability, travel, design, architecture
Writer-editor based in Bangkok. Contributing Editor for @ArtReview_ Asia magazine.

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Based in Bangkok, I'm a writer and editor covering arts and culture, as well as social and sustainability issues, across Thailand and the region.

Max Crosbie-Jones’s Journalist Portfolio

Why Collective Practice in Thailand is Under Threat

Why Collective Practice in Thailand is Under Threat

And is the real truth that it is as innocuous as it is important?

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Property and Theft: A History of Looting in Southeast Asia

Property and Theft: A History of Looting in Southeast Asia

In Southeast Asia the antiquities trade is under closer scrutiny than ever before, but if the region is to ke…

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Artist Mit Jai Inn: 'My work is a process, a living condition, not painting'

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

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Thailand's unique movie posters steal the show

Thailand's unique movie posters steal the show

Hand-painted montages and their artists play starring role in Bangkok exhibition

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Apichatpong Weerasethakul: How to Deal with Exploding Head Syndrome

Apichatpong Weerasethakul: How to Deal with Exploding Head Syndrome

What is this most sensitive of artists picking up beneath the placid surfaces of his homeland?

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Taiki Sakpisit: Subtle Politics Meets Boldly Experimental Cinema

Taiki Sakpisit: Subtle Politics Meets Boldly Experimental Cinema

The filmmaker uncovers the cyclical nature of Thailand’s troubled past

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‘Why Are We in Okinawa?’ by Jon Mitchell, Reviewed

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By Max Crosbie-Jones Verified, Jon Mitchell. Bloomsbury
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Jon Mitchell investigates the US and Japan’s longlasting subjugation of Okinawa This is a book about the battle for Okinawa. But not that battle – the infamously brutal one that ground on for 82 days at the tail end of the Second World War and has already spurred countless forensic war-history books.
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Art at the Cambodian Beach Resort

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By Max Crosbie-Jones Verified
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What do you get when you combine art, marine conservation and tourism? Max Crosbie Jones visits the Cambodian beach resort town of Kep to find out The vibe at Knai Bang Chatt is, as you might expect for an upscale beach resort in Kep, a drowsy town on the Cambodian coast, carefree. Days are spent eating modern Khmer food, lazing in the pool, sailing or doing yoga – and doing so guilt free, thanks to the resort’s proudly touted sustainability credentials.
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Canonising Tang Chang

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By Max Crosbie-Jones Verified
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A new museum dedicated to the late Tang Chang lays the groundwork for a comprehensive understanding of the artist’s life and career Much is uncertain about the legacy of the late Tang Chang – a poet-painter in Thailand between the 1950s and 80s – but one thing is clear: 14 October (1973) is an unforgettable painting. Upon its two-by-two-metre surface, the hirsute Chang, chest bare, legs akimbo, looks at us with hollowed-out eyes and scrubbed out hands.
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