Literature

Berlin’s Neue Nationalgalerie reopens after 6-year overhaul

Shawdesh Desk: Berlin’s Neue Nationalgalerie, an iconic modern art museum designed by Bauhaus pioneer Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, reopened to the public Sunday after a six-year refurbishment of the

Author Hasan Azizul Huq admitted to NICVD

Shawdesh Desk: Hasan Azizul Huq, a renowned fiction writer who had been sick for almost a month, was taken to Dhaka from Rajshahi on Saturday as his physical condition did

Remembering natyacharya Selim Al Deen

Shawdesh Desk: Wednesday marks the 72nd birth anniversary of the Ekushey Padak-winning late dramatist Selim Al Deen, regarded as the pioneer of theatre in Bangladesh. Like previous years, the day

Nigerian artist illustrating the human experience with a ballpoint pen

Shawdesh desk: From a distance, Jacqueline Suowari’s larger-than-life portraits look like monochromatic photographs overlaid with colorful graphics. Upon closer inspection, you see these dramatic images are the culmination of thousands

Picasso artworks displayed in a Las Vegas restaurant could fetch over $100M

Shawdesh Desk: Eleven Pablo Picasso artworks that were on display at a Las Vegas restaurant for over 20 years will hit the auction block this October, just two days before

SM Sultan’s 98th birth anniversary observed

Shawdesh Desk: Tuesday was the 98th birth anniversary of legendary artist SM Sultan. SM Sultan Foundation and Narail district administration organised various programmes at Sultan Smriti Sangrahasala to mark the day.

Prehistoric cave markings prove Neanderthals ‘paint art like humans’

Shawdesh desk: Markings discovered on stalagmites in southern Spain prove Neanderthals were creative and “closer to humans” than previously thought, a new study says. Neanderthals, whose lineage died out about

Shattered by blast, landmark Beirut museum tries to rebuild

Shawdesh Desk: The artist meticulously cuts small pieces of yellow and red glass, then lays them in a pattern to recreate the stained-glass windows that were the trademark of Beirut’s