Take cooking classes amid Chiang Mai's terraced rice fields. 

The Northern city's best galleries host special exhibitions, talks and workshops late into the night. 

Rustic & Blue's annual farm-to-table dinner is the perfect excuse to head north. 

Explore this year's hottest openings in the Northern capital. 

It aims to be your one-stop Asian culture station. 

A new option in Chiang Mai's historic heart.

And a former Iron Chef contestant heads the kitchen.

The year’s most important art opening occurred this month in Chiang Mai. Maiiam Contemporary Art Museum launched to much fanfare with a retrospective of Cannes-winning director Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s work. The minds behind the museum are avid Thai contemporary art collectors Eric Bunnag Booth, 47, Jim Thomson’s international marketing director, and his stepfather, Jean Michel Beurdeley. Here, Booth explains why they chose Chiang Mai and their hopes for putting Thailand on the world’s art map.

Deals so good, you better start packing.

Maiiam Contemporary Art Museum will launch with a retrospective of Cannes-winning director Apichatpong Weerasethakul's work.