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Bob Percival’s four-year quest to collect and reproduce vintage book covers from the 1960s and ’70s has culminated in RetrogradeYangon Posters, a shop in Rangoon’s Bogyoke Market where the works can be purchased.
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Burma’s artists explore the possibilities of creative life in the post-censorship age
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Founder of The Myanmar Storytellers, Thant Zin Soe, speaks to DVB about how he is using the art of storytelling to convey important social justice issues.
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“In the end, we should be aiming to make this the last generation in Burma who has to live with war.”
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Once only discussed in hushed privacy, NLd supporters are proudly proclaiming their support for Suu Kyi in the most permanent way possible – tattoos.
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Artist Ye Yint Hein takes DVB into his workshop, where he casts political portraits in chalk powder.
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Full time photographer, part time mountaineer Kyaw Thar is displaying photographs of a gruelling solo journey to the tops of northern Burma’s highest peaks.
“Now, artists have started moving on,” said Min Lwin, who opened Gallery 65 in Rangoon in 2010. “They are looking more into culturally subversive matters.”
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An art exhibition is currently being held in Rangoon to call for the release of detained student activists and other political prisoners.
An internationally recognised Rangoon artist was arrested on Tuesday, after casting a written curse on the county’s government, police and military. He was later released.
An NLD-commissioned sculpture of the independence leader Gen. Aung San by artist Aung Kyaw Tun will go on display this month.
A landmark exhibition of Burmese Buddhist art will land in the US capital of cool next month.
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The work of artisan potters in historic Shwebo, Sagaing Division is renowned across Burma. Their long tradition and distinctive style not only makes for a beautiful product, but has helped[…]
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Before it can reach its full potential, Burma’s contemporary art scene faces several obstacles.
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A Rangoon art exhibition is featuring more than 300 drawings by children displaced by communal riots in Arakan State and the central Burmese city of Meikhtila over the last two years.
Art lovers in Rangoon were treated to a solo exhibition by leading political activist Min Ko Naing on Wednesday
Cinema lovers will set their focus on Burma this week as the annual ASEAN film festival begins in Rangoon.
Young people growing up in camps on the Thai border are finding a creative release through photography. Here DVB showcases some of their work.
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A campaign called, “Their Hands, Our Future” has been set up in Rangoon to raise awareness for children whose parents cannot afford to send them to school.
“Sneaking denunciations of the government past the censors was at once a point of pride, an act of duty, and a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse with a regime singular in its desire to stamp out dissent.” – Alex Bookbinder looks at the life of Burmese cartoonist U Pe Thein.
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An art exhibition featuring work by nearly 100 artists is being held at the Mandalay Hill Art Gallery in central Burma, to celebrate the venue’s 13th Anniversary.
After more than five decades of censorship, the art scene is blooming in Burma and artists enjoy a newfound freedom. But now, disagreement exists about the role art should play in society.
Burma sees more galleries open up as the art world catches on to its artists, with dozens now selling successfully.
Arkar Kyaw, the Rangoon street artist who last year painted a mural of Barack Obama, has been invited to spray-paint a huge billboard in Naypyidaw in preparation for the SEA Games.
Exhibitions are now showing political art openly in Burma. As the old censorship laws are being relaxed, protest groups are using art to spread their message.
Painted on scraps of clothing with carved soap, cigarette lighters and even syringes, Htein Lin’s artworks were his lifeline during years in Burma’s jails — and the spark for an extraordinary love story
Dec 19, 2008 (DVB), Famous actor Kyaw Thu, who is also vice president of the Free Funeral Service Society, has said he is leaving the world of film to concentrate[…]
Jul 17, 2008 (DVB), More than 200 cartoonists are participating in a fundraising cartoon exhibition in Rangoon to support victims of Cyclone Nargis, according to the editor of the weekly[…]
Jun 3, 2008 (DVB), Around 500 people attended a commemoration service organised by the New Zero modern art group in Rangoon yesterday to pray for those killed in Cyclone Nargis[…]
