Art & culture

Dhaka, Oct 18 (UNB) – Ekushey Padak winning artist Kalidas Karmakar, a painter and printmaker of international repute, passed away on Friday afternoon. He was 73. Read More »

Placido Domingo will not receive a European cultural award this weekend in Vienna as previously announced. Read More »

Los Angeles – The crowd cheered as Emily Zamourka took the stage.”I didn’t have much time to practice,” she confided in an audience gathered to celebrate the designation of Los Angeles’ new Little Italy on Saturday. “So I’m just gonna sing the same song I sang on the subway…That ok with you?” Zamourka launched into Italian composer Giacomo Puccini’s aria, ... Read More »

Cairo, Oct. 16 (Xinhua/UNB) — Artistic bands from 30 countries will participate in the fourth Afro-Chinese Arts and Folklore Festival which will be held in Upper Egypt’s Aswan Province on Oct. 27-31, Suhair Abdel-Qader, head of the event said on Tuesday. Read More »

Lievin (AP/UNB) — The Louvre has opened a new art conservation center some 200 kilometers (120 miles) from Paris to protect the museum’s priceless artworks from its flood-prone reserves. The Louvre Conservation Center was inaugurated Tuesday in Lievin in northern France, near another outpost of the museum, the Louvre-Lens. Protecting the museum’s works from the nearby Seine River has taken ... Read More »

Windsor, OCT 8. (AP/UNB) — Authorities exhumed the bodies Monday of two victims of the 1944 Hartford circus fire in the hopes of determining whether one of them is a woman who is among five people still listed as missing after the tragedy. Read More »

London, Oct 6 (AP/UNB) — The family of drummer Ginger Baker, the volatile and propulsive British musician who was best known for his time with the power trio Cream, says he has died. He was 80. Read More »

Oklahoma City, Oct 5 (AP/UNB) — The Museum of the Bible in Washington quietly replaced an artifact purported to be one of a handful of miniature Bibles that a NASA astronaut carried to the moon in 1971 after an expert questioned its authenticity. Read More »

Entertainment Desk French cultural organization Alliance Française de Dhaka paid tribute to Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore and National poet Kazi Nazrul Islam through a musical programme at its Dhanmondi center on Friday evening. Read More »

New York, Oct 1 (AP/UNB) — Jessye Norman, the renowned international opera star whose passionate soprano voice won her four Grammy Awards, the National Medal of Arts and the Kennedy Center Honor, has died, according to family spokesperson Gwendolyn Quinn. She was 74. Read More »

Dhaka, Sept 30 (UNB)- Chinese Embassy in Dhaka honored Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy with ‘Outstanding Organisation Award’ for its special contributions to culture at a Chinese exhibition launched at the academy recently. Read More »

Metallica says its frontman James Hetfield has entered rehab, and the band is canceling its upcoming tour in Australia and New Zealand. Read More »

Feni, Sept 27 (UNB) – Despite having no hand since his birth, Monaem, a class-three student of a school here, excelled in painting by resorting to art using his feet. Read More »

New York, (AP/UNB) — An Etsy creator, Sian (Shawn) Zeng (Zayng) took the top prize in the first Etsy Design Awards, announced Tuesday. Read More »

Entertainment Desk The Inter-university Literature and Cultural Competition ‘AUNKUR 2019’ was held for the third time at the premises of Military Institute of Science and Technology(MIST) to enrich Bengali literature and culture yesterday. Read More »

Sep19 (AP/UNB) –They’ve become a global sensation — “paint and sip” studios where adults can spend evenings out learning to make art in a relaxed, BYOB setting. Thousands of franchises now exist to help us all unleash our inner creative. Read More »

Mumbai hosts the “Bollywood Oscars” for the first time in India in 20 years this week with the megastars, movers and shakers of a booming Hindi film industry celebrating another bumper year, including in huge markets like China. Read More »

US-based streaming giant Amazon announced Wednesday its big-budget “Lord of the Rings” series will within months start filming in New Zealand, home to Peter Jackson’s movies of the fantasy epic. Read More »

Narail, Sept 14 (UNB) – The four-day Sultan festival ended on Saturday with a popular boat race, locally known as Nouka Baich, in the Chitra River in the district down. Read More »

The inaugural ceremony of a group art exhibition titled ‘Adherence’ at its Galerie Zoom will be held on Friday, 17 September 2019 at 5.30 pm. Read More »

Kazan (Russia), Sept 14 (UNB) – Leading members of the architectural community from around the world highly praised Bangladesh for its excellence in architecture as six winning projects of the 2019 Aga Khan Award for Architecture (AKAA) received their awards formally at a ceremony held at Musa Jalil State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre here on Friday. Read More »

Narail, Sept 13 – About 500 children took part in a painting competition on Friday, the third day of ‘Sultan Utsab’ celebrating the 95th birth anniversary of eminent painter SM Sultan. Read More »

Bangladesh’s name will be heard loud here at a global stage of architects on Friday as the recipients of the 2019 Aga Khan Award for Architecture will receive the award. Read More »

New York, Sep 10 (AP/UNB) — There was a huge choir that veered from stirring, soaring gospel, then spit verses from Cardi B and sang lines from Queen Latifah’s “U.N.I.T.Y.”; a spoken word artist who reminded the audience that rock ‘n’ roll was born because of a black, queer woman ; and a stunning collection of clothes that ran the ... Read More »

Susan Sarandon knows what it takes to win an Oscar, but on Friday the veteran US actress blasted Hollywood for only handing out statuettes to stars backed by “the Harvey Weinsteins of this world.” Speaking at the Toronto International Film Festival for the world premiere of “Blackbird,” the Academy Award-winning star said Oscars glory is only possible today with vast ... Read More »

Entertainment Desk Renowned actress Bonna Mirza has signed up for a government-funded film Ghor Geosthi. The versatile actress has been working on stage, television and in films for the last two decades. She was highly applauded for her eponymous role in Rabeya, directed by Tanvir Mokammel. The film is still screened on major national holidays in various television channels. Pita, ... Read More »

Dhaka, Sept 4 (UNB) – Turongomi’s latest production Ho Chi Minh will be premiered at the National Theatre Hall of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy on Thursday. The production, scheduled for 7:30pm and 8:30pm, will have no entry fee.Ho Chi Minh is based on the life, journey and philosophy of the Vietnamese leader. This is going to be the first-ever biography dance theatre ... Read More »

Dhaka, Sept 02 – A group art exhibition titled ‘Symphony’ has begun at its La Galerie, Allianc Française, Dhaka on Monday, 2 September 2019. Read More »

Country’s legendary artist, puppeteer, painter, sculptor, fine-arts professor and media personality Mustafa Monwar turns 84 on Sunday. This celebrated artist was born on September 1, 1935 at Jessore to the renowned poet Golam Mostafa. Currently serving as the chairman of the Bangladesh Shishu Academy and a professor of the Department of Drawing and Painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts, ... Read More »

Country’s prominent cultural institution Chhayanaut arranged a cultural event to pay tribute to the national poet Kazi Nazrul Islam, observing his 43rd death anniversary. The event inaugurated at its Dhanmondi auditorium on Saturday evening, with an introductory group performance on the song ‘Jago Amrita Piyashi Chita’ by artistes of the organisation. Moumita Sarkar Mumu, Shukla Paul Setu, Kaniz Husna Ahammadi, ... Read More »