Canny curatorship makes this converted modernist house a showcase for many leading local folk such as Thaiwijit, Chatchai Puipia and Sutee Kunavichayanont,...
100 Soi Tonson
Spiral up the Guggenheim-esque atrium of the Bangkok Art & Culture Centre where the top three of the building's 11 storeys are exhibition halls. Beyond...
939 Thanon Rama I
Museums of modern Thai art are rare, but this private collection houses 120 major works, which are displayed on lawns, ledges, warehouse gantries and the...
4/18-19 Nuanchan Soi 56
American art dealer H Earnest Lee fostered new markets for emerging Thai artists at this converted wooden house, other hip venues and in New York. Look out...
201 Sathorn Soi 12
The revival and global fame of Thai silk owes much to Jim Thompson, a US architect who came to Thailand at the end of World War II with the OSS (now the...
6 Kasemsan Soi 2
Photographer Manit Srivanichpoom and artist-filmmaker Ing K exhibit artful lenswork upstairs in this retro, mint-green shophouse facing the Hindu temple....
87 Thanon Pan
This beautiful colonial-ish building from 1922 offers the best English reading in town, plus art shows in the Rotunda. The British Club next door runs its café.
195 Thanon Surawong
Authentic cultural experiences of one day or longer, with Thai experts offering a hands-on insight into arts like dance, lai Thai design, cooking and...
Lad Prao Soi 60
Thailand's Broadway diva Patravadi Mejudhon - actor, teacher, dancer, producer, director and writer - turned her compound into the open-air Patravadi...
69/1 Soi Wat Rakang
One of the world's best design centres, the Thailand Creative & Design Centre (more often, TCDC) inspires Thais with global design and showcases Thai...
Emporium, 7th floor
Art students flock to the wat's Ayutthaya-era bot (ask a monk to open it) to sketch the Rama III-era murals by Thai artist Thongyu (primarily jataka tales...
33 Charan Sanit Wong Soi 32