Art

Kranti Art 2023: Bangladesh-India art exchange hosted by Friendship Bangladesh

Artists from India and Bangladesh embarked on a journey from Dhaka to Gaibandha, from 4 to 12 March, to exchange ideas on art, celebrate womanhood, freedom, and equality. The Preema Arte Foundation in Dhaka organised the programme, which was conceived by Shoilpik Shammota and supported by the Kerala Lalitkala Academy and the Kekeyellam Foundation from India, as well as the Friendship Cultural Preservation and the Friendship Colours of the Chars, concerns of Friendship NGO, from Bangladesh.

Is AI the solution to the animation industry’s so-called “labour shortage”?

Are we, as a society, ready to use AI if it is used at the expense of starving artists?

‘Baksher Baire’: An art workshop for underprivileged children

The workshop will feature eight emerging Bangladeshi artists with their 2D, collaborative, and collective artworks.

When Bon Bibi comes to life

The scenography for the project was made by Paris-based multinational architecture, art, and design group Golem. It has been created with the support of Harper Collins India. The installation invites visitors to enter a forest of enormous pages where scenes from the book stand as tall as trees.

Dhaka Art Summit for young visitors

Animation, games and performances your children shouldn't miss on the last day of DAS 2023 today

Art Summit for a non-artist

Maybe art is about staring at a wall long enough before you realise that the exhibition ended in the previous room, and it’s just wall paint that you’ve been staring at for the past ten minutes. 

The healing art can bring

Art offers us ways to tame the inner turmoil within all of us.

Esscre brings art into entrepreneurship

Esscre was founded two years ago, during the COVID-19 pandemic, to create a talent ecosystem. When the idea was conceptualised, a team of like-minded young individuals began gathering knowledge about the industry and identify how their new endeavour could be impactful. With months of hard work and brainstorming, Esscre came into existence with a mission of curating creativity and making it accessible to everyone.

Goodbye, Indigo Lady

She was a central leader of Bangladesh's craft industry – of its Jamdani revival, and for the small but strong niche that it had begun to carve out for itself within the subcontinent's field of crafts.

March 20, 2023
March 20, 2023

Kranti Art 2023: Bangladesh-India art exchange hosted by Friendship Bangladesh

Artists from India and Bangladesh embarked on a journey from Dhaka to Gaibandha, from 4 to 12 March, to exchange ideas on art, celebrate womanhood, freedom, and equality. The Preema Arte Foundation in Dhaka organised the programme, which was conceived by Shoilpik Shammota and supported by the Kerala Lalitkala Academy and the Kekeyellam Foundation from India, as well as the Friendship Cultural Preservation and the Friendship Colours of the Chars, concerns of Friendship NGO, from Bangladesh.

March 7, 2023
March 7, 2023

Is AI the solution to the animation industry’s so-called “labour shortage”?

Are we, as a society, ready to use AI if it is used at the expense of starving artists?

February 15, 2023
February 15, 2023

‘Baksher Baire’: An art workshop for underprivileged children

The workshop will feature eight emerging Bangladeshi artists with their 2D, collaborative, and collective artworks.

February 11, 2023
February 11, 2023

When Bon Bibi comes to life

The scenography for the project was made by Paris-based multinational architecture, art, and design group Golem. It has been created with the support of Harper Collins India. The installation invites visitors to enter a forest of enormous pages where scenes from the book stand as tall as trees.

February 11, 2023
February 11, 2023

Dhaka Art Summit for young visitors

Animation, games and performances your children shouldn't miss on the last day of DAS 2023 today

February 10, 2023
February 10, 2023

Art Summit for a non-artist

Maybe art is about staring at a wall long enough before you realise that the exhibition ended in the previous room, and it’s just wall paint that you’ve been staring at for the past ten minutes. 

January 31, 2023
January 31, 2023

The healing art can bring

Art offers us ways to tame the inner turmoil within all of us.

January 30, 2023
January 30, 2023

Esscre brings art into entrepreneurship

Esscre was founded two years ago, during the COVID-19 pandemic, to create a talent ecosystem. When the idea was conceptualised, a team of like-minded young individuals began gathering knowledge about the industry and identify how their new endeavour could be impactful. With months of hard work and brainstorming, Esscre came into existence with a mission of curating creativity and making it accessible to everyone.

January 15, 2023
January 15, 2023

Goodbye, Indigo Lady

She was a central leader of Bangladesh's craft industry – of its Jamdani revival, and for the small but strong niche that it had begun to carve out for itself within the subcontinent's field of crafts.

December 28, 2022
December 28, 2022

Competitions are not necessary in creative fields

Creative fields that involve music, dance, and art do not require competitions.