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Artwork and gaze

Works of art inhabit a world that has no fixed field of action or ground of play – it is a virtual topography without a predetermined boundary. If art is produced Read

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Shahabuddin in India: Two back-to-back exhibitions explore the abiding theme of 'liberation'

Shahabuddin Ahmed, famed for his figural propositions through which he often exteriorize the drama of movement, has recently had two back-to-back exhibitions in India. The Bangladeshi expatriate living in Paris Read

writes TAKIR HOSSAIN with DEPART DESK

Exquisite freight from Balgo: Australian art at Gallery Cosmos

Featuring an array of exquisitely beautiful pieces of contemporary Australian indigenous art, an exhibition of aboriginal artists from Australia opened at Gallery Cosmos in the city on April 1st. Some 26 Read

A glimpse into the: 12th Istanbul Biennial

The title of the coming 12th Istanbul Biennial and its conceptual framework were unveiled in October 2010. The title of the biennial, Untitled (12th Istanbul Biennial), 2011, refers to the work of Read

writes SHAHEEN RASHID

Night visions: A sustainable Illuminated City

Set to be a collective regional platform of artistic expression and exchange of ideas and technology among the people through more than 20 delightful light art installations, the 'i Light Marina Read

writes ROMAIN MAITRA Speaks to MARY ANNE KYRIAKOU

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fixing the standard by the extrinsic: Rabindranath Entrapped in Bangladesh Theatre

Therefore when men [sic] are seriously engaged in fixing the standard of value in art by something which is not inherent in it, - or in other words when the excellence Read

writes SYED JAMIL AHMED

Midnight's Child

Critical agency regarding Kapoor's work has attained an almost bespoke parameter and verges on oxymoronically transcendental signifiers like 'dreamlike and tactile' or 'implacable yet whimsical' or, in the case of Read

writes EBADUR RAHMAN

Hovering over time and tactility: Anish Kapoor, The architect of postconceptual experiences

Any spectacle, form or space that rips open a punctum into the fabric of the real also defies historical-social time and matrix by giving rise to an experiential sphere positing Read

Life is right in any casel

Enthused over Rilke's 'Letters to a young poet', which Meng Huang and I have often discussed, I would love to imitate them and use the epistolary form to speak to Read

writes MONICA DEMATTE

Afflicting the myths with radical interfacing: Re-examining semioticity through Ronni Ahmmed's spaced-out odyssey

The ramification of sourcing myths and legends are usually floated in the form of textual complexity as well as grandeur of expression while it unpacks a sinuous narrative that tells Read

writes MUSTAFA ZAMAN

Safiuddin Ahmed : An artist of pragmatic intent

Safiuddin Ahmed, one of the most venerated pioneers of modern art in Bangladesh for his individuated style of indigenous modernism, turns 80 this June. A major retrospective has been organized on Read

writes SYED AZIZUL HAQUE with DEPART DESK

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Of matter, mind and myth-generating stuffs

Mustafa Zaman: Let's begin this interview with the issue of communication, as it has been referred to as a means to generate meaning in the sphere of the arts. Do Read

Scrap-metal faces for a truth-teller

I began doing performances as a feminist in my early days, wanting to draw attention to the cause of the women – and that seemed to be continuing here in Bangladesh. Read

Unfettered in an (un)fairytale-like world : A chance encounter with Ronni Ahmmed

I am a time traveller who sees things beyond future, beyond past, beyond present; but I see things not with the eyes of my body but with the eyes of Read

writes SAADIA ELAHI Speaks to RONNI AHMMED

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Change and its cycle

A city always takes its own course and changes through time. Some changes are not really desirable, and they make deeper impressions in our hearts. In this materialistic civilization, changes Read

writes MUHAMMAD WAHIDUZZAMAN

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a portfolio of illusionistic sense data: Chanchal's reconstruction of reality

Abdul Halim Chanchal's series of oil paintings, executed during his Master Degree (2000-2002) at M S University, Gujrat, India, creates a trammeling of the eye in the vein of optical art Read

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Back to the photographic moment: Digital recreation of Raja Deen Dayal's oeuvres

This is a need that may be difficult to comprehend for a generation that seeks quick salvation and instant immortality, an assurance and accessibility made possible by dint of the Read

writes PAROMA MAITI

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Henrike Daum’s cabinet of curiosities

Entering Henrike Daum's studio in Berlin's hip district Mitte is like entering a cabinet of curiosities: the light is dimmed and, while adjusting the eyes to the darkness, one catches Read

writes BARBARA J SCHEUERMANN

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Art that thrived through the mediation of Kumbhakars

While collecing data on shora paintings of Bangladesh what becomes apparent is that the traditional production centres of some shoras have shifted from one location to another. For example, Sureswhari Read

writes NISAR HOSSAIN

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The moralist-realist eye Iqbal's construction of 'the innocence'

Distortion of the human form opens up the possibility of abstraction in painting; and in the exhibition titled 'Innocence and Experience', where artist Muhammad Iqbal showcases his recent yields, we Read

writes SHAHMAN MOISHAN

Shoot the Wog ! : A polemic against Chobi Mela

Chobi Mela is a biennial international festival of photography held in Dhaka, Bangladesh. It is the largest festival of photography held in Asia. Chobi Mela VI will be held from Read