editor's note
Body and it's performed reality
The resistant corpus, through 'performative utterances' as well as non-verbal actions at multiple experiential levels, often initiates a renewal of the cultural/political paradigms. Conversely, the body that lies prone vis-à-vis the zeitgeist, rarely affords such time-transforming acts which are Read
writes MUSTAFA ZAMAN
newsscape
Visualizing textual narrative : Illustration Workshop And Exhibition At Goethe-Institute
For most children, the first step into the fantastic, and at times enigmatic world of literature is through the pictures each book carries. Children's books, which are mostly a combination Read
Laila Sharmin wins international award
Kim Jin-ha, head of Art Institute POOM, Seoul, may have taken issues with the display at the 16th Space International Print Biennial after detecting an almost untraceable link to the Read
Postscript
Difference redefined and resilience echoed: The voice that was Azam Khan
The pop icon Mahbubul Haq Khan, a k a Azam Khan, in the vein of the characters depicted in the strain above, lifted from one of his legendary songs, made Read
writes SHAKHAWAT TIPU with DEPART DESK
A celebration of Indian-ness
We had our own parallel national movement. We were part of the Progressive Artists Group; there were five or six painters in Mumbai and a few in Calcutta [now Kolkata]. Read
The normative and the notional in art : Mohammad Kibria and modern classicism
No matter whether the words normative, notional or classicist are explicatory of condemnation, or tropes to define a trend-setting (in Bangladeshi context) artistic mode, Mohammad Kibria, with his strain of Read
writes GOLAM MORTUJA
Features
Seeking 'lines of flight' in Bangladesh theatre: When narration of the nation is the norm
‘In a world in which the national state is the overwhelming norm' (Anderson 1983: 123), 'the very idea of “nation” is now nestled firmly in virtually all print-languages, and nation-ness is virtually Read
writes SYED JAMIL AHMED
Radical Departures: Paintings of Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath began to paint at a time when art and nationalism were closely linked in India. Abanindranath, his nephew, was at the height of his fame, though years had elapsed Read
writes INDRAPRAMIT ROY
The unconscious mind and the flight of appearances: Rabindranath and the romantic principle
At one point in his life, Rabindranath Tagore felt that 'art is a way for the human to attain completeness [of being]'; to buttress this concept with more meat we Read
writes MUSTAFA ZAMAN
Rabindranath Tagore's Manuscripts
Mexico was home to Octavio Paz for quite a number of years, where he was stationed as the Ambassador. During these years he travelled around Afghanistan, Nepal, Burma, Sri Lanka Read
writes OCTAVIO PAZ
Rip off / rip open: 19th edition of the National Art Exhibition
In the West, due to the corporate and media boom and the technological innovations, the diversity, scale and the rate of production in the visual culture has thrown it in Read
Kazi in Nomansland
The essay is all about Pakistani stamps. It seems there were 328 stamps Pakistan issued from 1947 until the 1971 liberation of Bangladesh (or 'breakup of Pakistan,' depending on your perspective). Only one Read
writes NAEEM MOHAIEMEN
encounter
Continuity of stilled moments
Mustafa Zaman (M Z): The 'joie de vivre' which is strongly sensed in your work is not to be found in others. Compared to the other abstract painters in Bangladesh Read
Locational
The uprising and everything after
Contemporary art in Pakistani context is like the proverbial elephant that was discovered by a bunch of blind men. Each, in order to describe what he experienced, reduced the huge Read
writes QUDDUS MIRZA
Close Look
Shompur Vihar and the varendric settlers
Vipul Sri Mitras' Nalanda inscription 'a singular feast to the eyes of the world' says it all about Shompur Vihar, now Paharpur, built and established by Pal king Dharmapal during 770 AD. Excavations in 1927 of the main temple exposed a copper plate dated 448 Read
writes OMAR KHALID RUMI
Imprint
Making the right noise! : Unpacking Longitude Latitude 4
First off, the bottom-line: Longitude Latitude 4 (LL4), organized by Shehzad Choudhury et al, shall go down in our annals and almanacs, con bravura, as a zeitgeist defining instant. LL4 delineated Read
writes EBADUR RAHMAN
Exposure
Line of demarcation : returning to Ratan Majumdar
It was pure happenstance that in 1978 'Pleasure of Nudity', an entry by Ratan Majumdar, a ceramic artist turned printmaker, received one of the three awards in the 4th National Art Read
Singled Out
Post-funeral of anti-form : Dispatches from Vienna Art Fair
The 7th edition of Vienna Art fair, in the first inspection, exudes the air of a genteel trade jamboree. But, I meet Pawel Althamer – the world renowned polish sculptor, pedagogue Read
writes EBADUR RAHMAN
Navigator
Clashing notes from an ensemble of the Disenfranchised
‘Footnotes and Unorthodox', an exhibition hosted by Dhaka Art Center, echoes the sense of unfinishedness of its title. In this artists-organized exhibition, four young practitioners come together to display works Read
writes GOLAM MORTUJA
Urban development and eco-degradation Art of Ashraful Hasan
Modernization has impacted the Bengali artists in both sides of the border – West Bengal, now a state of India, and Bangladesh, a sovereign country since 1971 – but has resulted in divergent Read
writes SHAKHAWAT TIPU
Persistence of memory sanctified
I was like a peasant in his field attached to the pictorial glebe, as though suspended from a jute rope, as an ox to the harness, although devilishly restive, only Read
writes ROMAIN MAITRA
Panorama
Santaran turns 12
It is rare for an art event to be all-encompassing so that the participating artists get to take free-hand at cotemporary methods and trends; it is even rarer for dialogues Read
