Craftsmanship in lacquerwork was revived, and these graceful household pieces, with their delicate designs in gold, cinnabar, and green, are still the most popular form of folk art in Burma.

“Modern” art, such as is now in vogue in the West, has not yet arrived in Burma. Our public is not yet ready for abstraction, let alone non-objectivism. But several of our youngest ...

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 ...

Four Myanmar contemporary artists take the spotlight in the group exhibition Resilience In Shadows: Art Amidst Adversity, showing at A+ Works of Art gallery in Kuala Lumpur until Sept 7.

The total value of an artist’s artworks sold at auction over a specific period. This metric reflects the artist’s overall market activity and demand in monetary terms. The middle value of all realized ...

The events are part of Myanmar’s Moment, a programming series built around the Asia Society Museum exhibition Buddhist Art of Myanmar, on view through May 10, 2015 in New York City. Zat pwe is the ...