Thailand’s art scene is beginning to breathe again as the strangleholds of politics and pandemic ease.
In 2020 and 2021, art suffocated under Covid-19 lockdowns and a crackdown on young pro-democracy protesters. The government’s harshest weapon was Article 112, Thailand’s draconian law against royal insults, which dispatched over 200 protesters to jail. Freedom of expression was effectively banned.
After Thailand’s world-famous tourism destinations reopened in late 2021, artists found hope in May when Chadchart Sittipunt was elected Bangkok’s new governor with
