US EditionHow a Bangkok Art Show Was Censored After China Anger
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In Thailand, one of Bangkok's leading centres of contemporary art censored certain works of an exhibition on authoritarian regimes. A decision, according to the Reuters agency that revealed the case, under the pressure of Beijing. Our correspondent in Bangkok visited the exhibition and discussed with a Hong Kong artist whose name disappeared from the walls.
South-East Asia bled out in the 1960s and 1970s because of the division of the world into blocs. Half a century later, the Anglo-Saxon West again lost its foot in this part of the world – not in the military, but in the economic and political – but it continues to wage the cultural, informative and diplomatic battle with genuine warrior ardour. This summer, that trench has been raised in the greatest artistic bastion of Thailand, the Bangkok Art…
An artist on the run, an exhibition censored: How China tried to silence a Thai art show
An artist on the run, an exhibition censored: How China tried to silence a Thai art show Three weeks ago, Burmese artist Sai was in Bangkok, celebrating the opening of an art exhibition he had curated with his wife at one of Thailand's top galleries. Now the couple has fled to the UK where they…
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