Mayco Naing, “Identity of Fear” (2014) (image courtesy the artist and New Zero Art Space) People were openly dismissive of this new form of expression, and later that same year Ko was sentenced to ...

Four Myanmar contemporary artists take the spotlight in the group exhibition Resilience In Shadows: Art Amidst Adversity, showing at A+ Works of Art gallery in Kuala Lumpur until Sept 7. These new ...

YANGON, Myanmar — The contemporary art scene in Myanmar (Burma) is undergoing a whiplash-inducing level of change that reflects the trajectory of the country. Consider these stats: In the year 2000, a ...

Foreign influence has been limited in Myanmar (formerly Burma) for more than 40 years. Very few people have internet access and, consequently, Myanmar artists depend on books and magazines to tell ...

The University of Colorado Art Museum recently acquired a significant collection of Burmese and Chinese art ranging from the Neolithic Period through the Song Dynasty. A gift from Warren and Shirley ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. When Yeo Workshop opens its booth at the Art SG fair in Singapore next week, a painting by Burmese artist and ...

Not too many artists can boast an exhibition at the Seattle Center, especially not after spending four years in a bamboo hut. But that is exactly what Saw Kennedy did, showing four of his drawings for ...

YANGON, Myanmar — The dance music thundered through a crowd of thousands of drunken fans, past the pavilions where skinny women in impossibly high heels gyrated around metal poles and into the streets ...