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    Tagged: art

    Arts Features Lead Story News Rangoon

    The art of preserving Rangoon’s 1960s and ’70s art

    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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    Testing the new era of artistic freedom

    Burma’s artists explore the possibilities of creative life in the post-censorship age

    Conflict Culture Ethnic issues Lead Story News

    Kachin IDP kids tell their stories with images

    “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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    Arts Lead Story News Politics Suu Kyi

    Wearing Your Politics on Your Sleeve

    Once only discussed in hushed privacy, NLd supporters are proudly proclaiming their support for Suu Kyi in the most permanent way possible – tattoos.

    Dreams in chalk dust video

    Lead Story News Politics Video

    Dreams in chalk dust

    Artist Ye Yint Hein takes DVB into his workshop, where he casts political portraits in chalk powder.

    Window on Burma’s frozen north video

    Environment Lead Story News Video

    Window on Burma’s frozen north

    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.

    Arts Lead Story News Rangoon

    Rangoon artists, gallery owners wary of renewed censorship

    “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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    Arts Lead Story News Photos Protest

    The art of protest

    An art exhibition is currently being held in Rangoon to call for the release of detained student activists and other political prisoners.

    Lead Story News Politics

    Artist arrested after casting New Year curse

    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.

    Arts Lead Story News Suu Kyi

    Aung San sculpture to be unveiled

    An NLD-commissioned sculpture of the independence leader Gen. Aung San by artist Aung Kyaw Tun will go on display this month.

    Culture Lead Story News

    Burmese Buddhist art premieres in New York

    A landmark exhibition of Burmese Buddhist art will land in the US capital of cool next month.

    Moulding history in upper Burma video

    Culture Features Lead Story News Video

    Moulding history in upper Burma

    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[…]

    Arts Feature Features Lead Story Lifestyle News Special Report

    Burma’s Fledgling Contemporary Art Market

    Before it can reach its full potential, Burma’s contemporary art scene faces several obstacles.

    Arts Communal Violence Lead Story News

    Children’s art depicts pain of communal violence

    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.

    Leading political activist shows his artistic side video

    Culture Lead Story News Video

    Leading political activist shows his artistic side

    Art lovers in Rangoon were treated to a solo exhibition by leading political activist Min Ko Naing on Wednesday

    Arts Culture Lead Story News

    Rangoon hosts ASEAN Film Festival

    Cinema lovers will set their focus on Burma this week as the annual ASEAN film festival begins in Rangoon.

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    Lead Story News Photos

    Refugee kids get creative

    Young people growing up in camps on the Thai border are finding a creative release through photography. Here DVB showcases some of their work.

    Their hands, our future video

    Features Lead Story News Society Video

    Their hands, our future

    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.

    Local artists on display in Mandalay video

    Arts Culture Lead Story News Video

    Local artists on display in Mandalay

    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.

    How political should art be? video

    Arts DVB Debate Lead Story

    How political should art be?

    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.

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    Graffiti artist invited to leave his mark in Naypyidaw

    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.

    Art: A form of protest in Rangoon video

    Culture Features Video

    Art: A form of protest in Rangoon

    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.

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    Kyaw Thu quits film for art and social work

    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[…]

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    Cartoon exhibition to raise funds for cyclone victims

    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[…]

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    Modern art group holds cyclone memorial

    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[…]

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