A photo journal and some ramblings…
Posted in Amman Rashid, Artist, Exhibition, art on Mar 27th, 2010
“AADI” hand-crafted ornaments and jewelry by artist designer Amman Rashid from Bangladesh. click for larger view Amman uses copper, brass, silver, beads, semiprecious stones, old/antique bits, old coins, seeds, shells, jute, string, rope…. to create these unique pieces. His solo exhibition opened today at the Heritage Restaurant in Gulshan Dhaka. A couple of his close [...]
Posted in AISD, Amani, Artist, Ashit, Bangladesh, Dhaka, Exhibition, Hindu, Mannat, Music, Ujwala Prabhu, art, ceremony on Jan 30th, 2009
Started out with a “Friday Afternoon Art Fair” at AIS-D… Â Â Â Â ….then to view an exhibition by 11 artists [which includes a couple of friends: Ujwalaand Ashit] who have put up their prints for all to view after a Print Making workshop – the exhibition is called “Mechanical Fantasy” at Britto… Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â [...]
Posted in Artist, Bangladesh, Dhaka, Exhibition, Smita Srivastava, art on Jan 30th, 2009
Art by Smita Srivastava at a joint India-Bangladesh exhibition at the Chitrak Art Gallery in Dhanmondi Dhaka in January 2009. Some nice new pieces of work! Â Here is a detail from this painting – I love the “landscape-like” feel… Â Great exhibition, enjoyed viewing all the artwork from all 11 artists who participated.
Posted in Bangladesh, Bird, Dhaka, Exhibition, Gallery, Photography, Portrait, Samiul Mohsanin on Nov 25th, 2008
A multi photographers bird-photography exhibition - I went to view Samiul Mohsanin’s photos today. A treat! Samiul is a student of Jahangirnagar University, extremely knowledgable about the habitat and birds, and has hosted us and been our guide on a previous birding visit. Samiul Mohsanin: The exhibition is being held at birder and naturalist Enam Ul Haque’s home [...]
Posted in Artist, Bangladesh, Dhaka, Exhibition, Gallery, Kuhu, Photography, Portrait, Radius Centre, Rokeya Sultana, Smita Srivastava, Strobist, Ujwala Prabhu, art, school, street photography on Nov 14th, 2008
Children from USTAV School Dhaka visit Radius Gallery to view the “Jhaal Muri” exhibition, and they all seem to have had a wonderful time. We asked them which pictures were their favourites – very diplomatically they said “ALL”! Apparently they then all sat on the floor and recited poetry and did a few dances, I [...]
Posted in Artist, Bangladesh, Dhaka, Exhibition, Gallery, Kuhu, Portrait, Radius Centre, Rokeya Sultana, Smita Srivastava, Ujwala Prabhu, art, rickshaw, street photography on Nov 9th, 2008
Jhaal Muri artwork on diaplay at Radius Center gallery, the exhibition opened on 8th November. Here is a catalog of the work by the artists, Kuhu, Rokeya, Smita and Ujwala. This is an incomplete listing, more to be added as soon as I get back to Dhaka and can photograph / upload the rest. KUHU [...]
Posted in Artist, Bangladesh, Dhaka, Exhibition, Gallery, Kuhu, Photography, Radius Centre, Rokeya Sultana, Smita Srivastava, Ujwala Prabhu, art, street photography on Nov 7th, 2008
The Hanging…. As terrible as that sounds, it is not that terrible at all! Except that it did take the mickey out of us getting the sequencing, spacing and positioning the way we wanted it to be. No compromizes. The artwork was hung and taken down 3 times before we got the right look we [...]
Posted in Artist, Exhibition, Gallery, India, Meera Dayal, New Delhi, Pierre Hannoyer, art on Nov 6th, 2008
An art exhibition of drawings and paintings by Meera Dayal and Pierre ‘Boris’ Hannoyer, at India Habitat Center New Delhi India from 4th to 9th December 2008. A must see!
Posted in Artist, Dhaka, Exhibition, Gallery, Museum, Rokeya Sultana, Shilpakala Academy, Smita Srivastava, Ujwala Prabhu, art, rain on Oct 24th, 2008
A lovely drizzly holiday day… just perfect for a drive out to the Institute of Fine Arts after a couple of drinks and a spicy hot South Indian lunch! Â …and then to enjoy the artwork displayed at one of the 3 venues [Shilpakala Academy] of the 13th Asian Arts Biennial being held at Dhaka. [...]
Posted in 3, Artist, Bangladesh, Dhaka, Exhibition, Gallery, Karwan Bazar, Kuhu, Photography, Portrait, Radius Centre, Rokeya Sultana, Smita Srivastava, Ujwala Prabhu, art, rickshaw, street photography on Oct 22nd, 2008
An Invitation to the exhibition ‘Jhaal Muri’ An Art & Photography Exhibition on Bangladesh Street Culture by Rokeya ~ Kuhu ~ Smita ~ Ujwala ~ Anil. 8th November 2008 at 7:00 PM Bay’s Galleria 5th Floor 57 Gulshan Avenue Dhaka Bangladesh His Excellency Mr. Pinak Ranjan Chakravarty, High Commissioner of India to Bangladesh, will inaugurate [...]
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