Artnet

Sri Lanka’s Very First Contemporary Art Museum Opens on 17th Floor of the City’s ‘Innovation Tower’

After three years of preparation, the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Sri Lanka will open to the public in Colombo tomorrow. It is the first museum devoted to 20th and 21st century art in Sri ...
Staten Island Advance

Staten Island artist hailing from Sri Lanka wants to revolutionize print-making in her country: ‘We cannot let that art form die’

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. - Thirty years ago, Dona Geethani Kiriella finished her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in sculpture in Sri Lanka’s only visual and performing arts university -- then a year later, at ...
Hyperallergic

A Guide to Sri Lanka’s Diverse Art Spaces

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Artnet

Colombo Art Biennale 2016 Will Explore Concepts of Space

The theme for Sri Lanka’s Colombo Art Biennale 2016 (CAB) is “Conceiving Space.” It will bring 40 international artists to Colombo, the country’s capital, with a focus on art from Sri Lanka and South ...
scmp.com

Galle Literary Festival’s Art Trail features exhibitions, open houses and artists’ tours and turns Sri Lanka’s Galle Fort into ‘living canvas’

“No other place in the whole island represents the trouser-wearing, cricket-watching modern Sri Lankan like Galle Fort,” says tour guide Shanjei Perumal, founder of Galle Fort Walks. Perumal leads his ...