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Payal Uttam
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.

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.

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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?

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.

The theme of the triennial Okayama Art Summit in Japan, ‘If the snake …’, is deliberately open-ended and, with no curator dictating terms, 18 artists together explore issues around technology, our imagination and the human condition.

Revamped art fair in Indonesian capital praised for its dynamism, focus on emerging Asian talent, and its prices; collectors picked up young artists’ work for as little as US$1,000, and some galleries sold nearly all the art they showed.

Designers Yunn Fann Chang and Shane Liu, and curator Tipus Hafay, who belongs to the Makuta’ay tribe in Hualien county, launched their accessories brand Kamaro’an in 2015

If you have ever stayed at Singapore’s Park Royal hotel or Alila Villas Uluwatu in Bali and thought ‘I fancy those chairs’, you might be pleased to know that the designers have started their own lifestyle line, WOHAbeing

There was plenty of drama at Christie's Hong Kong Magnificent Jewels auction on Tuesday, which raked in just over HK$640.5 million from about 290 lots including signed pieces from Cartier, Tiffany & Co and Van Cleef & Arpels.