Simply sign up to the Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. When the Myanmar artist Htein Lin was in jail in Mandalay in 2000, he and fellow inmates read news in a smuggled magazine of ...
HONG KONG, China (CNN)-- In the 6-1/2 years Htein Lin spent in Myanmar prisons between 1998 and 2004, he produced an estimated 250 paintings. He credits prison guards with helping to save most of his ...
Myanmar artist Ko Htein Lin was arrested Wednesday evening alongside his wife, the former British ambassador Vicky Bowman. According to two anonymous sources who spoke with the New York Times, the ...
5 September: Myanmar artist Htein Lin and his wife, the former British ambassador Vicky Bowman, were each sentenced to one year in prison on 2 September after a secret trial, reports Myanmar Now. The ...
Among the first paintings Htein Lin made during his 61/2 years in a Burmese prison was a self-portrait. The likeness is only passing — he had no mirror in his cell — and the line is uncertain: in lieu ...
THE junta that rules Myanmar is not known for its love of art. The generals do occasionally pay for the restoration of an historic temple or the painting of an edifying mural. But inevitably, the ...
In Performing Vulnerability: Risking Art and Life in the Burmese Diaspora, Emily L. Hue focuses on the moment when Myanmar artists leave a relatively enclosed domestic art community. Bangkok Art ...
Even though Myanmar and Thailand share a border, politics has kept one of Myanmar’s most daring artists from stepping into Bangkok. Htein Lin, a student activist, former political prisoner and ...
HONG KONG, China (CNN)-- In the 6-1/2 years Htein Lin spent in Myanmar prisons between 1998 and 2004, he produced an estimated 250 paintings. He credits prison guards with helping to save most of his ...
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