Literature

The Accidental Artist

Shawdesh desk: Fawaz Rob comes across as an arrogant person when you meet him. The artist is sure of himself. As though he knows that his creation will hold the

Pissarro: French woman ends fight to reclaim art stolen by Nazis

Shawdesh desk: A French woman has ended her legal battle to retrieve a painting stolen from her adoptive parents by the Nazis. Léone-Noëlle Meyer discovered the artwork was in an

Thai museum unveils 1,000-year-old artefacts returned from US

Shawdesh Desk; Two ancient sandstone artefacts believed to have been stolen from Thailand during the Vietnam War were unveiled Monday at a Bangkok museum, greeted with a fanfare of traditional

The world’s most expensive painting is stirring up a scandal

Shawdesh desk: It is the biggest legal fight the art world has ever witnessed: a Russian oligarch, who claims he was ripped off buying multi-million-dollar masterpieces, versus a Swiss art

Soviet space shuttle covered in graffiti

Shawdesh desk: For years it’s sat abandoned in a dilapidated hangar in Kazakhstan, visited only by intrepid urban explorers keen to photograph a spectacular if unloved piece of space history.

How a 17-foot, 3D-printed twin of Michelangelo’s David in Dubai could help revive tourism in Florence

Shawdesh desk: Michelangelo’s statue of the biblical hero David before he slays the giant Goliath is one of the world’s most famous artworks. Now, 500 years after its creation, it

Designs invited for Bangamata Begum Fazilatunnesa Mujib Award

Shawdesh Desk: The government has invited the design from the experienced designers for the newly introduced ‘Bangamata Begum Fazilatunnesa Mujib Award’, which will be conferred on five women in different

Nobel laureate Poet Tagore’s 160th birth anniversary today

Shawdesh Desk: Today is the 160th birth anniversary of Biswakabi Rabindranath Tagore, who reshaped Bengali literature and music as well as arts of Indian subcontinent with contextual modernism. On the