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The politics of nomadism
Legitimate power is finite, writes Foucault. When power breaches its contract with a given society within which it has been formalized, it does so in order to suppress the subjects Read
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Nature unveiled and re-organized : Queenie's solo print exhibition
Nasima Khanam Queenie could be tagged a semi-abstract painter. Her seemingly effortless compositions bear the skeletal footprint of the intricate organic structures of foliage and leaves. To illuminate the natural Read
Public art installation at the Korail slum waterfront in Gulshan
Since early 2013, artist and photojournalist Susie Taylor has been reporting on the Bangladeshi garment industry with her partner, Jason Motlagh. The two have teamed up with the Photography Department of Read
Pegging one's hope on the multiples : Workshops at Studio Shunno
Mind Map is an initiative of Studio Shunno designed to engage artists looking for opportunities to pursue their aesthetic goals in graphic mediums. The recently concluded edition, which was their Read
Of human freedom and its representation a la Shahabuddin
Recently, Shahabuddin Ahmed two simultaneous solo painting exhibitions in Dhaka – one at Gallery Chitrak (September 28-October 12) and the other at Gallery Twenty One (September 20-October 11).Ahmed celebrates the enlightenment notion Read
Ronni Ahmmed clinches an award at 9th Florence Biennale
Bangladeshi painter and multidisciplinary artist Ronni Ahmmed clinched an award in the video category for his recent work Seven Hundred Miles of Sleepwalking at the 9th Florence Biennale. His 10 minute Read
Across genres, across generations
Athena Gallery of Fine Arts has staged a group art exhibition entitled Then and Now, featuring the works of twenty six painters representing a mix of generations from the 1960s Read
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Partition, folk art and Shilpacharya Zainul Abedin
Both as a practitioner and an organizer, Shilpacharya Zainul Abedin (1914-1976) had been the driving spirit behind the modern art movement in Bangladesh. The discourses of the last 70 years, between 1943 and 2013, Read
writes SHAWON AKAND
Vastukala : The Architecture of Muzharul Islam
Muzharul Islam, the master architect who passed away more than a year ago, was not just a modernist, he was modernism, a single man representation of a national destiny. From Read
writes KAZI KHALEED ASHRAF
Circumnavigating South Asian art : Staging the summit as a global interstice
The last decade has witnessed rapid developments in contemporary art in Asia. There have been significant shifts within the discourses on art and within the art market for Asian art Read
writes ZIAUL KARIM
Staging of the contemporary in Dhaka Art Summit : Summing up our own blockbuster show
While the fate of the 'new art' still remains in the throes of an endemic indecisiveness courtesy of the mainstream art circle leading mostly to misgivings about its origin, the Read
writes MUSTAFA ZAMAN with SEEMA NUSRAT AMIN
Unravelling history at the Colombo Art Biennale
T V Santosh's Effigies of Turbulent Yesterdays (2011-2013) is perhaps the most immediately striking, consumable and predictable piece at the Colombo Art Biennale (CAB) that ran from January 30 to February 9, dispersed Read
writes KURCHI DASGUPTA
Provoking and disrupting discourse
Truth, knowledge, information, opinion and speculation – this short sequence of words provides a basic taxonomy of the appearance of thought in public. Operating as distinguishing categories that seek to parcel Read
writes SOPHIA Y HAO
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Fair Deal
The stage is set for Art Dubai 2014, the 8th edition of the world's most talked about juncture of art, knowledge and industrial glamour – the essential elements that colour today's ensemble Read
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Caught in eye of the nation
Pavel Rahman: That was a day when all the political parties – the seven and the fifteen party coalitions were staging a blockade in Dhaka. All of us media workers were Read
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World Art Games An oasis for art practitioners
Imagine an ambience where creative minds get together, share experiences, converse inspiringly, draw on enriching interactions to rekindle flames of creativity – and alternately just sit back and relax! Is that Read
writes ZIAUL KARIM
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Redesigning Dhaka
A city is a romantic realization of collective desire of its people that consummates itself in a humanist material reality. It is an organic body whose form and function derive Read
book-review
Folk art or the generic art of Bengal?
There are hardly any writings on folk art in Bangladesh. Once in a while you come across just a few books on the subject, providing only superficial and vague understanding Read
writes SHAKHAWAT TIPU
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Our own reflections
Dhaka's historical architectures are disintegrating from lack of care. These cultural markers are not specific to any period, but are structures that represent the changing sites of the city that Read
writes SHULEKHA CHOUDHURY
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Branded and brain-dead in Dhaka : Sumon's reexamination of the consumer culture
Brand Culture, the unromantically entitled sculpture exhibition by Imam Hossain Sumon, with its deterministic social goal and its subservient aesthetic position deflects the entire gamut of local pre-mordern cultural traits Read
writes GOLAM MORTUJA
The select few : Staging the Aminul Islam Award nominees
Ten artists cutting across a gamut of mediums, and the ontological expanse of their own encounters with life in a unique geopolitical context, banded together in a spurt of assumed Read
writes SHARMILLIE RAHMAN
Ripon Saha's reorganization of the sensory data
In the social space where things are in a state of fluidity and flux, demarcation of boundaries is impossible and arts and crafts are no exception to that. Therefore, ascertaining Read
writes DHALI AL MAMOON
Encoding art with fragments of time : Santaran's cross-cultural capital
Hausman, for his deconstructive stratagem, represents the anti zeitgeist, ivory tower-toppling strain which reached its pinnacle in the post1st World War Europe. The 'zeit' had always remained in check by Read
writes SANJOY CHAKRABORTY with GOLAM MORTUJA
The new physicality : ‘Image space’ in Shimul Saha's media and light installations
If the digital media and the formalist strain in visual art seemed irreconcilable in the artistic milieu before the millennium, works of Shimul Saha reassuringly makes a case in favour Read
Dystopia revisited : Anisuzzaman’s visual interruption
A sword stained with blood is stabbed into the ground as it is done mostly after the battle is fought and won; a tiger sliced into half bleeds profusely; the Read
writes ZIAUL KARIM
Intimations of an 'estranged familiar'
The subject of the dichromatic gaze burns holes in the eyes of the picture, eyes drunk in the 'ultra-real' (in the photographer's own language) vision of its auteur. The 'real' Read
writes SEEMA NUSRAT AMIN
When the gaze travels afield and beyond
Through the Lens bills itself as an online open community of photographers who join forces to pool ideas, techniques, new forms of expressions and experimentations to hone the variegated edges of their collective penchant for photography. Read
writes SHARMILLIE RAHMAN
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Odyssey: caught in the fray of hypertextuality
Odyssey Complex, couriered as a sampling of 'contemporary performance art from Germany' by Goethe-Institut, was on view at the Shilpakala Academy on February 7, 2013. This itinerant performance, shepherded by Felix Mathias Read
writes SHARMILLE RAHMAN
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Working through the dyad of presence-absence : 7th CRACK International Art Camp 2013
The Open Day of 7th CRACK International Art Camp on December 30, 2013 saw a confluence of artists and community members at Smaran fish farm at Rahimpur, Kushtia, a Read
