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 ...

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 ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — A local artist has brought a burst of color and culture to the streets of Indianapolis. A newly painted traffic signal box at U.S. 31 and Edgewood Avenue has turned heads while ...

Imagine being born into a civil war and then entering a strange new continent, city, and culture. Central Indiana is home to 35,000 Burmese people: those who have fled the country’s bloody military ...

On a muggy day in May in the ramshackle city of Rangoon, an elderly Burmese man straightened rows of jade jewelry in a souvenir case. He organized a stack of traditional Burmese music CDs, one of ...

The University of Colorado Art Museum recently acquired a significant collection of Burmese and Chinese art ranging from the Neolithic Period through the Song Dynasty. A gift from Warren and Shirley ...

YANGON (Reuters) - 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 ...

YANGON, Myanmar -- Hours before the performance art show was to open to the public, the censors arrived and the grilling began. Under their watchful gaze, the nine artists performed parts of their ...