See Paw Thame’s new paintings in oil at Mar Mar’s Suvannabhumi Gallery starting August 13, 2011 in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Here are the show’s catalogue notes by Ma Thanegi with an excerpt from I am Cadmium Red, Paw Thame’s Autobiography: Paw Thame the artist   “A few creative people exist only as the entity embodying [...]

  Note:  Here is an excerpt from the new book, I am Cadmium Red by Burmese-American artist Paw Thame. The book is the result of over 300 emails Paw Thame sent to me over a two month period in the winter of 2009 in response to my questions.  Ma Thanegi, the internationally acclaimed author from [...]

This beautiful book has been 10 years in the making but Andrew Ranard’s Burmese Painting: A Linear and Lateral History has arrived and is available in book stores. This is the most ambitious and comprehensive history of Burmese Painting to date and a great contribution to Myanmar art history. Beginning with eleventh-century Bagan to the [...]