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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Myanmar artist Nyein Chan Su's paintings have a breezy simplicity. Broad, colourful strokes and exaggerated figures, often in silhouette, capture an isolated country steeped in Buddhist culture but ...

The new generation plays a crucial role in preserving the almost extinct art of Myanmar puppetry, known as Yoke The, said U Shwe Kyi, a 73-year-old who has devoted over 30 years of his life to ...

A bold new exhibition by a young Myanmar artist challenges people not to turn away from dead babies and brutalised women in conflict zones overlooked by the world’s media. While Russia’s invasion of ...

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 ...

Sunrise in Bagan, Myanmar, home to thousands of temples, pagodas and monasteries built from the 9th to 13th centuries CE. (jmhullot/Flickr) Writing from Bagan, Myanmar, Times correspondent Jane Perlez ...

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 ...

A puppet in action is pictured during a puppet show in Yangon, Myanmar, Oct. 27, 2024. (Photo: Xinhua) The new generation plays a crucial role in preserving the almost extinct art of Myanmar puppetry, ...