Arts
ESSAY / Music and the space it creates for literature
I cannot, for the life of me, definitively describe what makes music. Growing up in a family where music of any form was not typically paid any reverence, my exposure to it was tunnelled into mainstream pop songs for the longest time.
Naeem Mohaiemen discusses ‘Midnight’s Third Child’ at ULAB and Bengal Institute
Naeem Mohaiemen called the book and its selections, which comprise fairly short essays and editorials on contemporary matters, “an argument for somehow recording all that seems ephemeral, so we can then look back and trace what was happening.”
Dhaka Art Summit for young visitors
Animation, games and performances your children shouldn't miss on the last day of DAS 2023 today
These folk tales record a unique past between South Asia and Soviet Russia
The Slavic fairy tales and Soviet stories formed a significant part of the childhood memories of people who grew up in the subcontinent from the 1960s to the mid 1980s.
The books you will meet at Dhaka Art Summit 2023
For those who are especially interested in literature in book form, the first two floors of the exhibition hold treasures.
Revisiting indigenous folktales at Dhaka Art Summit
“We wanted to share the story in our native language, just the way we heard it from our elders", said Kanak Chanpa Chakma.
BOOK REVIEW: NONFICTION / Andy Warhol & Truman Capote talk out their anxieties
Andy Warhol suggested they tape their conversations on his Sony Walkman, to which Truman Capote agrees.
Himu taught me it was okay to not be normal
Himu not only made me look beyond goals that lead to a luxury of life, but he also taught me to enjoy the tiny bits that make life agreeable.
Rumi wasn't yours: Afghan fury as Iran, Turkey claim Sufi poet
Who can lay claim to Rumi, the Sufi mystic who is one of the world's most beloved poets? A bid by Iran and Turkey to do so has exasperated Afghanistan, country of his birth eight centuries ago.
Beautification with Henna
What with Eid approaching, people are going helter skelter to touch-up their hair and hands with “mehdi”--both to look their best and keep with an old tradition of Bangladesh.
The world of Abdus Shakoor's paintings
Last year, a handful of watercolour paintings of Abdus Shakoor Shah, along with a few selected works of two other artists from Bangladesh were put in an exhibition in a gallery in Tokyo, under the title “Three poems from Bangladesh”.
Joypurhat Fine Art Festival in focus
To inspire creativity and to diffuse the practice of science and culture among the students of the rural schools, the first Joypurhat Fine Art Festival was held last month at Teghar High School premises, Joypurhat.
Women need to be in decision-making roles - Shaela Sharmin
Gender equality is way off in the creative arts, believes Shaela Sharmin, an eminent painter and theatre personality in the port city.
Hamiduzzaman Khan - The wonder of sculpture
Galleri Kaya celebrates Hamiduzzaman Khan's 70th birth anniversary with a solo sculpture exhibition. The exhibit opens today and runs till March18.
Esperanza Romero's Unknown Spirit at Cosmos-2
A 10- day solo art exhibition, titled “Unknown Spirit”, by Spanish artist Esperanza Romero opened at Gallery Cosmos-2, New DOHS, Mohakhali,
Cast of Rodin's 'The Kiss' sells for record 2.2m euros
A bronze cast of Auguste Rodin's famous sculpture "The Kiss" sold for 2.2 million euros ($2.4 million) to an American collector at an auction in Paris on Tuesday.
Dhaka Art Summit 2016 opens today
The third edition of the Dhaka Art Summit, deemed the biggest festival of South Asian Art, begins today at the Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy (BSA).
Fragments of the Anthropocene - at Bengal Art Lounge
“Fragments of the Anthropocene”, an exhibition of video works, installations, paintings and drawings by Shimul Saha and Zihan Karim, opened at Bengal Art Lounge in the city's Gulshan on January 30.