Southeast Asian art

Everyday defiance: Singapore Art Museum exhibition explores the role of ‘mundane’ art as a response to adversity

The show in the museum's new collections gallery includes work by 20 artists from Southeast and East Asia

‘It was a risk—but the response has been great’: young gallerists in Southeast Asia on their struggles and successes

Galleries from Indonesia, Singapore and Thailand, among other countries, are bringing the work of emerging artists to Art SG’s Futures section

Singapore steps up: the Art SG 2025 fair hopes to ride a wave of optimism in the city state’s art market

With new galleries, private art foundations and an influx of potential new collectors, Singapore’s art market is looking for growth

Local artists given pride of place at Tapei Dangdai fair

Taiwan government funds section of 2024 Taipei Dangdai Arts & Ideas fair to promote work of ten local artists

‘Trauma, hope and healing’: a closer look at Timor-Leste’s first-ever Venice Biennale pavilion

The young nation is represented by Maria Madeira, who is also exhibiting large-scale works

Singapore Art Week exhibitions explore connections between the city-state and the Global South

Parallels between Southeast Asia, Latin America and Africa are the subject of two thematic shows

'It helps Hong Kong if other Asian cities do well': Chinese gallerist Kevin Poon discusses his new Singapore gallery

The influencer and dealer has opened an outpost of his WOAW gallery in the Southeast Asian city, which is enjoying a new art market spotlight

Myanmar's military junta releases outspoken artist Htein Lin who had been sentenced to a year's hard labour

The artist was set free in an amnesty of political prisoners, which included his British wife

Outspoken Myanmar artist Htein Lin arrested by military government and sent to infamous prison

Artist and his British wife Vicky Bowman are the latest detainees of the brutal junta that has killed thousands of citizens

Soedarmadji Jean Henry Damais, Indonesian curator and historian, dies aged 78

The last director of the Jakarta History Museum was a leading advocate of the archipelago's traditional arts, crafts and designs

Ten thousand pearls to adorn a bronze: Vidya Dehejia on Chola dynasty bronzes

In an excerpt from the art historian's forthcoming Mellon Lectures, she focuses on two works by a master 11th-century artist