Art & Culture

Children painted portraits of legendary artists Zainul Abedin, Quamrul Hassan, and SM Sultan and copied their famous artworks in a competition organised by the department of fine arts of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy on Friday at the plaza of National Art Gallery. About 60 participants in three age groups participated in the competition. Zainul Abedin and ... Read more

The ear soothing sounds of guitar and piano and melodious songs in French, English and Bengali entertained the audience at La Galerie of Alliance Française de Dhaka at Dhanmondi on Thursday. The show was the first of two-day programme organised jointly by Alliance Française de Dhaka and the Embassy of France in Bangladesh to celebrate ... Read more

NATIONAL ART BIENNALE Mamun wins Dipa Haque Award Young artist Anisuzzaman Mamun has won Dipa Haque award for his acrylic on canvas titled Reality Show-2013-01 at 20th National Art Biennale, organised by Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy. This national award has been introduced in memory of renowned artist Dipa Haque who died in 1999. The award winning ... Read more

Today’s global culture, also fashionably known as brand culture relegates humans and promotes commodities. In a solo sculpture exhibition being held at Zainul Gallery, Imam Hossain Sumon has showcased a number of drawings and sculptures that raise questions about the overwhelming dominance of brand culture. The works on display are thematically

The latest instalment in the Terminator franchise will be the first in a stand-alone ‘rebooted’ trilogy. Paramount Pictures said the fifth Terminator film, based on the original series starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, is due to be released in June 2015. There was no official confirmation on

NAT’L ART BIENNALE Lovy wins award depicting child labour   Young artist Munjurul Lovy has won Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy honorable mention award for his thought-provoking artwork Save the Children-1 participating at the 20th National Art Biennale organised by Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy. The award winning artwork shows three children in very unusual and constrained postures. The child ... Read more

Contemporary Bangladesh has been revealed through bold strokes of brushes on canvases by young, aspiring artists at 12-day art exhibition at the Institute of Asian Creative at Gulshan 2 in the capital. At the exhibition titled Contemporary Bangladesh, which is the debut show of the Gallery, you will get to see 51 paintings of different ... Read more

Two teleplays Hiramon and Akash Kusum featuring street children in lead roles were premiered on Thursday at Bashundhara Star Cineplex. All the children who acted in the plays were present at the premiere show, along with the director of the teleplays Mamunur Rashid and other technicians involved with the productions. Actor-director Mamunur Rashid has

NAT’L ART BIENNALE Rahman wins award for depicting Rana Plaza tragedy Endowed artist Mohammad Hasanur Rahman has won the Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy Honourable Mention Award for his installation work Signature at the 20th National Art Biennale, organised by Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy. The 20×13 feet installation narrates the tragic death of the victims of the collapse ... Read more

The mental or physical limitations have been triumphed over by a group of special needs students with autistic conditions by means of their artistic spirits. These gifted individuals have demonstrated their creativity through artworks that are currently being exhibited at the Drik Gallery in Dhanmondi. The exhibition titled Emerged from Unknown is the fifth edition ... Read more

School and college students of the city are participating in a four-day workshop in which the participants will learn the unique physical display based on traditional performing art forms as initiated by Gurusaday Dutt (1882–1941) as part of the Bratachari movement in 1932. The display was resurrected in the 1960s by a group of Bengalis, ... Read more

Artistic endeavours of the designers of Bangladesh Television (BTV) are on display at an 11-day group art exhibition at Bengal Shilpalaya in Dhanmondi. An ensemble of 34 artists, who have previously worked or are currently working as designers at BTV, have displayed 61 artworks done in different mediums and revealing diverse subject matters at

NAT’L ART BIENNALE Morshed wins honorable mention award   Talented artist Hasan Morshed has won the Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy Honorable Mention Award for his video installation Amar Bayas 42 Bochhor (I am 42) at the 20th National Art Biennale, organised by Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy. The installation depicts Bangladesh as it is now 42 years old. The ... Read more

The USA based Bangladeshi cultural organisation Priyo Bangla staged experimental theatre Jiboner Gaan recently at Thomas Jefferson School, Arlington, Virginia in the US. Above 60 Bangladeshi Americans who have been brought up in the US performed in the play. The production, supported by the county government, was dedicated to the victims of the Savar tragedy.

NAT’L ART BIENNALE Mainuddin wins Shilpakala Academy Award  Talented artist Md Mainuddin has won the Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy Award for his drawing Monajat [prayer] at the 20th National Art Biennale, organised by Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy. Finance minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhith, present as the chief guest of the opening ceremony of the biennale, handed over ... Read more

Monsoon, the season that rejuvenates nature with its refreshing downpour, was celebrated with vivacity at Chhayanaut auditorium on Saturday through vibrant dance numbers, synchronised with timeless Tagore songs and poems highlighting the season. The presentation titled Badal Meghe Madol Baaje by Nrityanandan was directed and choreographed by

Young director Sudip Chakroborthy has been bestowed with theatre troupe Natyadhara’s Tanusree Padak. On Saturday, thespian Ferdousi Majumdar who was present as the chief guest on the occasion, handed the award over to Sudip at the National Theatre Hall of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy. Thespian Lucky Enam and Nasrin Jahan

World Music Day was celebrated through a fanfare on Friday at the National Theatre Hall of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy. Singers in groups and solos presented different genres of songs at the programme organised by Bangladesh Sangeet Sangathan Samannay Parishad in association with Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy. June 21 is celebrated as World

Chhayanaut artistes welcomed monsoon presenting songs, poems and dance recitals glorifying the season on Friday at its auditorium. The programme was dedicated to Chhayanaut’s first president poet and social activist late Sufia Kamal whose 102th birth anniversary was celebrated on June 20. The audience enjoyed different

Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy organised a two-day Munier Chowdhury theatre festival featuring four plays by the martyr intellectual at the Studio Theatre Hall of the academy. Three public universities and Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy staged the plays at the festival organised as part of the academy’s yearly programme of commemorating the great cultural personalities