Yangon has a pleasant charm and gentle energy, with vast gardens and riverside walks, the grandeur of centuries-old monuments such as the Shwedegon Pagoda, a fast-growing cultural scene of art galleries and music performances, and a melting pot population of all Myanmar's tribes as well as industrious overseas Indians and Chinese, who make up 5% of the nation's population.
Joe Macca's "Two-Man Show" at Marylhurst University's "Art Gym, " on the other hand, is an example of a less felicitous side of Portland's art scene, common to mid-size art worlds: a schizophrenia in which participants want to both play the art game as it's contested in New York or Miami and thumb their noses at it at the same time.
The art scene has picked up to such an extent that last March also witnessed the launch of the country's first art guide (appropriately titled "Saudi Art Guide"), available online and in app form.
While many economies are still struggling to recover, Latin America's art scene is thriving once again.
This first-rate museum, designed by illustrious architect IM Pei, is the crown jewel of Portland's thriving art scene.
Since 2001 the boyish supercollector has been the largest patron in Mexico's modern art scene.
Through ambition and patronage he made his way into Rome's thriving Counter-Reformation art scene.
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"People are starting to appreciate each other within Saudi society and the art scene, " she said.
Outside the art scene too, Britain seems to be getting keen on Americans again.
Could it be that the enfant terrible of the British art scene has finally grown up?
His cicerone to the art scene was Barbara Rose, the critic and former wife of Frank Stella.
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There is a thriving local art scene centered around Bichinho, an even smaller village just outside town.
Numerous personalities from the German business community, the media, and the international sport and art scene, will participate.
Although he is most acerbic about the contemporary-art scene, Mr. Findlay is also unhappy about the museum world.
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Mr. Musson's growing profile on the city's art scene has, not coincidentally, paralleled Hennessy Youngman's rise on the Internet.
To be blunt, Portland's art scene has a lot of no-no on its lips but yes-yes in its eyes.
But lately, the thriving art scene is drawing its own share of peeps.
He has been a fixture of the Asian contemporary art scene for decades.
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The more than 2, 000 works aim to move beyond Moscow's dominance of the art scene to exhibit pieces made throughout Russia.
It exudes small-town charm, but it also boasts a thriving art scene.
Leaders in the British street art scene recently exhibited works here before the pieces were publicly auctioned for the Prince's Trust youth charity.
Beyond Edge of Arabia, there are signs that the art scene is on the up and not afraid to say what it thinks.
Although NYC embraces its image as the centre of the global contemporary art scene, it has supported neither adventurous architecture nor landscape architecture.
It can also support conceptual and formal scrutiny, unlike so much of what passes for wit on the contemporary art scene these days.
William Bailey, a top-notch painter, printmaker and respected professor of art at Yale University, has been on the art scene since the late 1960s.
This suggests the possibility that some of the revolutionary air of the Arab Spring art may eventually penetrate the bubble of the Gulf art scene.
One last gallery stop before becoming "art-ed out": Greenhut Galleries, in Middle St, is Portland's first private gallery and the anchor of the city's progressive art scene.
When collectors travel they usually like to check out the local art scene, but finding the relevant information on the places they visit can be frustrating.
The Liverpool Echo reports Mr Bampton was originally from Wallasey in Merseyside and the former St Mary's College pupil was a well-known face on the Liverpool art scene.
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