For Win Pe, Paw Oo Thett and Kin Maung Yin the heyday of painting in Rangoon was the 1960s. It was an exciting and creative time for these young painters with many exhibitions at embassies and parties at homes of diplomats and other foreigners. But by the early 1970s, the Socialist military government had ruined [...]

‘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 [...]

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 [...]