Simply sign up to the Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. When the Myanmar artist Htein Lin was in jail in Mandalay in 2000, he and fellow inmates read news in a smuggled magazine of ...

5 September: Myanmar artist Htein Lin and his wife, the former British ambassador Vicky Bowman, were each sentenced to one year in prison on 2 September after a secret trial, reports Myanmar Now. The ...

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Among the first paintings Htein Lin made during his 61/2 years in a Burmese prison was a self-portrait. The likeness is only passing — he had no mirror in his cell — and the line is uncertain: in lieu ...

THE junta that rules Myanmar is not known for its love of art. The generals do occasionally pay for the restoration of an historic temple or the painting of an edifying mural. But inevitably, the ...

With his artistic practice influenced by his time as a political prisoner for seven years, Htein Lin‘s works never fail to impact his viewers with perspectives and insights. He works in a variety of ...

Yangon, Myanmar – Artist Htein Lin talks calmly about the beatings, torture and abuse he suffered during the years he spent fighting for democracy. As a political prisoner under the former military ...

This picture taken on September 2, 2012 shows Myanmar artist Htein Lin speaking during a presentation of his paintings at a hotel in Yangon. Painted on scraps of clothing with carved soap, cigarette ...

Myanmar artist Htein Lin has been released from Yangon’s Insein Prison, along with his wife Vicky Bowman, a former diplomat, and three other foreign nationals being detained by the Tatmadow junta as ...

Even though Myanmar and Thailand share a border, politics has kept one of Myanmar’s most daring artists from stepping into Bangkok. Htein Lin, a student activist, former political prisoner and ...