YANGON, Myanmar — The contemporary art scene in Myanmar (Burma) is undergoing a whiplash-inducing level of change that reflects the trajectory of the country. Consider these stats: In the year 2000, a ...

Myanmar has been engulfed in protest since February 1, when Burmese army general Min Aung Hlaing seized control of the government in a military coup, refusing to accept to the landslide election ...

Mayco Naing, “Identity of Fear” (2014) (image courtesy the artist and New Zero Art Space) People were openly dismissive of this new form of expression, and later that same year Ko was sentenced to ...

The galleries of Asia Society Museum in New York have been a beehive of activity this past week, filled with the sounds of hammers and drills, and the smells of sawdust and fresh paint, as workers ...

Myanmar artist Nyein Chan Su's paintings have a breezy simplicity. Broad, colourful strokes and exaggerated figures, often in silhouette, capture an isolated country steeped in Buddhist culture but ...

Lead curator Saw Kennedy poses next to one of his charcoal paintings at the Xia Gallery & Cafe in St. Paul on Dec. 9. He is the lead organizer for a group of Myanmar artists called U&I, which is based ...

Not too many artists can boast an exhibition at the Seattle Center, especially not after spending four years in a bamboo hut. But that is exactly what Saw Kennedy did, showing four of his drawings for ...

This post was originally published in Chinese on the Stand News on February 25, 2021. The English version is published on Global Voices under a content partnership agreement with the Stand News. A ...

Anyone who ventured into New York's Asia Society Museum in January was greeted by the smell of fresh paint and the sounds of drills and saws as staff prepared the spring exhibition Buddhist Art of ...

The traditional Myanmar martial art of Lethwei is experiencing a resurgence in popularity. Strikes are fierce. Knockouts come quickly.