New Tang Chang art museum in Thailand preserves Thai-Chinese art rebel’s remarkable legacy

New Tang Chang art museum in Thailand preserves Thai-Chinese art rebel’s remarkable legacy


There was never any doubt that Nawapooh Sae-tang, the grandson of the late Bangkok-born artist Tang Chang, would inherit the family business of protecting and promoting his legacy.

“My father had told me from a young age that as his eldest son, I would have to be involved in the running of the estate,” he says ahead of the May 1 opening of the Tang Chang Private Museum in Nakhon Pathom, an hour outside the Thai capital.

It might not have been his choice, but Nawapooh has blossomed into a dedicated champion of his grandfather, who died in 1990, two years before Nawapooh was born.



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