Bangladeshi couple and art patrons Rajeeb and Nadia Samdani, along with art curator Diana Campbell Betancourt, made it to the top 50 of ArtReview magazine’s 2021 Power 100 list. The prominent art magazine publishes this list each year to feature the most influential people in the contemporary art world.
UNBDhaka
Published: 04 May 2021, 18:35
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday asked state-owned companies like Bangladesh Telecommunications Company Ltd (BTCL) to be self-reliant so that they do not have to depend on government funds.
The prime minister made the directive while presiding over a meeting of the Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) at the capitalâs NEC Conference Room. She joined the meeting virtually from her official residence, Gonobhaban.
Planning minister MA Mannan briefed reporters after the meeting from an online platform.
âThe prime minister instructed the state-owned companies to spend money from their own incomes. No money will be allotted from the government funds in the future. They need to stand on their own feet,â said Mannan.
Travel back in time with old sculptures
Four unrecorded antiquities found in Sylhet monastery opens up new horizon of archaeological research
These are among the four academically unrecorded antiquities kept at a Hindu monastery in Sylhet city. The photos were taken recently.
, Photo: Tarun Sarkar
Photo: Tarun Sarkar
Four ages-old stone sculptures, so far academically unrecorded, have been found at a monastery in Sylhet city and can open up a new avenue of studying art and heritage of ancient Shrihatta.
These antiquities two Vishnu idols, a miniature Ganesh statue and a Shiva Lingam are worshipped by Hindu devotees at the Shree Shree Balaram Jeu Akhra (monastery) in Mirabazar area.
Singapore was also a hotbed of creativity in the Sixties, though its art scene at the time is sadly under-documented. “Several artists were experimental and bold and forced audiences to rethink their ideas and understanding of what art can or should be,” says Charmaine Toh, a curator at the National Gallery Singapore. Only recently did the gallery rediscover the first known examples of land art from the city a series of works by performance artist Tang Da Wu. One piece,
Gully Curtains, hadn’t been unpacked since the Eighties.
Wu was concerned to see Singapore’s landscape increasingly stripped of trees to build public housing. As a result of soil erosion, deep gullies scarred the land near his home. In response, he climbed into one of these muddy crevices and positioned seven pieces of cloth of different lengths inside it, adding jagged black marks indicating the depth of the ditch. He left the fabric there for three months, inviting nature to collaborate. The result was a