‘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 [...]

The first generation Mandalay is the ancient capital famous for its wealth of traditional culture, as a centre of all arts and crafts, as well as the performing arts. Maybe it is not so surprising, then, that the second faction for movement of modern art in Myanmar originated there. U Kin Maung, (1911 – 1983) [...]