The Bengalis have an enterprising ability to regurgitate words and thoughts originating from the West after they have been thoroughly exhausted or made passé by years of epistemic interventions – both Read
Prior to the emergence of the Romantics, landscape as such has been only a peripheral presence in the European art. In contrast, China's tradition trails a long history, but the Read
The General Conference of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, meeting in Paris from 3 to 21 October 2005 at its 33rd session, adopted the Convention on the Protection and Promotion Read
Kitsch effectuates a range of reactions including sneer and frowning on the part of some who look down upon its unending constellation only with the faint hope that it will Read
Built as a modern day wonder, the iconic/phallic gesture that is the parliament building in Dhaka sits at the middle of its sprawling site at Sher-e-Bangla Nagar as the ultimate Read
Wikipedia explains Postmodern architecture 'as an international style the first examples of which are generally cited as being from the 1950s, but did not become a movement until the late Read
The story goes… in 1666, the same year Nawab Shaista Khan freed Chittagong from Portuguese and Arakan pirates, inadvertently opening up opportunities for the Dutch and English, the French traveller and Read
Art summits/fairs are the most happening, though predictable, avenues through which to enter the much hyped and hybridized space of today's globalized platforms where art, artists, curators, art writers, promoters Read
Outside the regular spatiotemporal matrices of urban design there exist zonalities of difference, or liminal spaces, where one finds oneself by chance or fluke. Situated beyond the map of habitual Read
In one of the habitats of the hijra (colloquial for a transgender ) communities in the mega mix of a city that is Dhaka, in a Shayampur slum to be precise Read
It is almost like a hoax we have thought up… in the context of how the hierarchies are set in Bangladesh according to age… as you can see that being Read
They, together with few other inquisitive individual artists whose periodic initiatives promoted interactivity in art, stand for the consistent search for the New in both local and global contexts and Read
An unresolved puzzle, spanning five rooms of Dhaka Art Center, the untitled art, architecture and moving image, a historical Without (the generation of the 1980s) poses as the dark space Read
In the wake of a confession by British artist David Hockney, where he admits having been a painter of the 'surface' throughout his life, one is bound to rethink the Read
Urbanization is, at one and the same time, a socio-economic cultural process and a conditional reality, the external manifestations of which are subject to alter with time and space. Therefore, Read
The recent sculptures of Lala Rukh Selim unleash a strong visual-conceptual force. Structured through an eroctics of expression which is devoid of desire, they stand for self-generative mode of expressivity Read
Somnath Hore (1921-2006) is one of the most prominent figures among the pioneers of modern art who, by injecting a strong sense of disillusionment in the social climate about the capitalist Read
Has the internet ushered in the end of l'homme de letters, or literary oracles, or has it given rise to a new breed of oracles who make their appearance using Read
If art attracts us, as Godard said, only by what it reveals of our most secret self, 'United Red Army' succeeds, not only in reclaiming our rights to historicise the Read
Wakilur Rahman's recent work has the viewer transported onto a plane from where one may realize that his is a world which is neither about imagination nor reality – it occupies Read
As the early 1980s set the stage for Ruhul Amin Kajol aka Ra Kajol, to appear and inscribe his own signature on the art scene of Dhaka effectuating a renewal Read
Etymologically the Bangla word 'Santaran' means 'to swim'. Taking that word as our starting point we may proceed on to unearth the organizational ethos of the artist-run nonprofit Santaran, which Read
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