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 [...]

Many thanks to Gill Pattison of River Gallery for an invitation to the Myanmar Contemporary Art Awards2008 Exhibition of Finalists reception held at the Strand Hotel on May 30th. Scheduled for only weeks after devastating Cyclone Nargis, the organizers decided the community could benefit by carrying on as planned. This was a good decision; spirits [...]