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AIRPORT POLICE COMMANDANT APOLOGIZES TO IRATE TRAVELER
In a rather unprecedented but nevertheless courageous and highly-commendable move, the commandant of the Aviation Police at Entebbe International Airport issued a public apology to an angry traveler, printed in the country’s leading daily “The New Vision.” Days earlier, another letter to the editor was published complaining about three police officers behaving badly and by insinuation trying to extract a bribe over wrongful parking and other alleged offenses, including “talking back” to the officers concerned and “not being repentant.”
Senior Superintendent of Police Herman Owomugisha, however, not tolerating such alleged behavior and the subsequent smearing of the image of the aviation police by errant officers, responded publicly, including offering his mobile phone number, which the aggrieved traveler, and others finding themselves in similar situations, should call to provide immediate remedy. This outstandin
After a Year of Online Programming, What Worked?
Frieze editors discuss the different trends in digital exhibition-making, from end-of-world scenarios to community-based initiatives
Terence Trouillot In February, an exhibition titled ‘Goodbye, World’, curated by Andreas Templin and Raimar Stange, was installed on an ice floe near the Arctic Circle in Swedish Lapland. Centred on environmental disaster, the show – featuring works by Jonathan Monk, Olaf Nicolai and Martha Rosler, among others – made me think of how COVID-19 has prompted a focus in the arts on the cataclysmic end of civilization. Accessible exclusively online, the exhibition is both tongue-in-cheek and allegorical, suggesting that all artworks will cease to exist in the future.
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Chobi Mela, the largest photography festival of Asia concluded on Sunday. The ten-day event started on February 12. This year Chobi Mela mounts a special edition, ‘Shunno (0)’.
Pathshala South Asian Media Institute and Drik Pictures Library jointly organised the festival at the DrikPath Bhobon in the capital.
Chobi Mela ‘Shunno (0)’ featured eight projects of 75 artists of different countries, including, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Srilanka. Some of the notable works were displayed at the festival in memory of eminent architect Bashirul Haq and the first female photographer of Bangladesh Sayeeda Khanum. This year, Chobi Mela paid a special tribute to their groundbreaking works.
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