‘The lovely big-bird jet planes flew to the United States and dropped us at Honolulu International Airport. I thought, now that I am in the wide world outside, maybe hope can grow, I can become one of the international artists that is my dream.’ Paw Thame is a displaced Burmese artist in the United States [...]

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 [...]

Myanmar Contemporary Art 1 by Aung Myint and Aung Min is a very fine book recording the development of Modern Art in the country.  The book is writen in Burmese so I can’t read the text but I love this book anyway. Thumbing through the text at first the book didn’t seem that different but [...]