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Payal Uttam
Payal Uttam is a freelance journalist who has been covering art and design across the globe for close to a decade. Her work has appeared in publications including CNN, The Wall Street Journal, Quartz, Forbes, The Art Newspaper and Women’s Wear Daily among others. She currently divides her time between Hong Kong and Paris.
Payal Uttam is a freelance journalist who has been covering art and design across the globe for close to a decade. Her work has appeared in publications including CNN, The Wall Street Journal, Quartz, Forbes, The Art Newspaper and Women’s Wear Daily among others. She currently divides her time between Hong Kong and Paris.
The British-Chinese artist’s monumental oil paintings blend love, mythology and lush flora, inviting viewers into immersive fantasy worlds.
The New York-based Korean artist cites filmmakers Wong Kar-wai, John Cassavetes and Hong Sang-soo, and painter Elizabeth Peyton as inspirations.
The US-based German painter places her family and friends in allegorical scenes informed by her own life and classic European art school training.
Thai collector Petch Osathanugrah died in 2023 before he could finish Dib Bangkok, but his son recently opened the 7,000 square metre space.
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At old forts and buildings in the Indian state of Rajasthan, installations are creating a ‘dialogue’ between contemporary art and history.
The inaugural Bukhara Biennale, which brings together over 200 Uzbek and global artists, is a sign of Uzbekistan’s opening up to the world.
3 museums rejoin the roster of must-see attractions in New York by the autumn, bringing important works to the fore when they matter most.
On Indonesia’s Nikoi island, sculptures, shows and workshops celebrate indigenous cultures as part of a year-round artist residency scheme.
Pharrell Williams and Steve Martin are two more famous collectors courted by the likes of the Brooklyn Museum and Minneapolis Institute of Art, and even staging their own shows.
The Tanoto Art Foundation has been set up by Belinda Tanoto to champion Southeast Asian art and bring together artists and art lovers.
Thai artist Natee Utarit has two connected exhibitions in Singapore asking what could have been if Buddha’s teachings took root in the West.
National Gallery of Singapore exhibition recasts sculptor and printmaker Lim’s career. A contemporary of Henry Moore, she was long forgotten.
Sales were down but spirits were high at the Kiaf and Frieze Seoul art fairs, with exhibitors pleased by young Koreans’ appetite for art.
After decades of being sidelined by the art establishment, women painters are enjoying long-overdue exposure – in the wake of Art Basel Hong Kong, here are 6 talents you should really already know
Recent growth in Singapore in private art spaces and exhibitions show its art market, while still small, is adding a layer that will be crucial to attaining its goal of being a major regional art hub.
Paul Gaugain, Frida Kahlo and David Medalla among artists in National Gallery Singapore’s ‘Tropical’ exhibition exploring colonial and postcolonial experiences in Southeast Asia and Latin America.
The third Art Collaboration Kyoto art fair saw works displayed in temples and traditional houses as organisers promote the Japanese city as a distinctive contemporary art destination.
One of Singapore’s most prominent artists, Tang Da Wu talks about curiosity and being real with audiences as his latest solo exhibition opens at ShanghART Gallery.
Art therapy allows people to express their emotions and deal with problems, and Hong Kong artist Wesley Tongson relied on his art to help him deal with his schizophrenia.
Hong Kong art space Para Site’s latest show, ‘signals … storms and patterns’, ushers in a new era for the non-profit gallery, with longer exhibitions that allows ideas to develop.
Artist’s meditative Hong Kong show pairs new rice paper ‘paintings’, prints and clay work with an earlier video work and large-scale fabric installation.
Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s exhibition ‘A Planet of Silence’ features images from the Mekong River and South America and offers a new way of looking at the world, he says.
‘N*thing Is Possible’ at Singapore’s National Design Centre charts Bali hospitality group Potato Head’s journey to zero-waste through stylish furniture and other designs made of recycled plastic.
Art markets in Southeast Asia are roaring back to life, particularly in Singapore, where Sotheby’s just held its first live sale in 15 years, and Indonesia. What does that mean for Hong Kong?
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Mount Fuji Architects Studio founders Mao and Masahiro Harada and British artist Liam Gillick designed Manabe Equation House, in western Japan, as part of unconventional hotel project spearheaded by a Japanese art collector.
