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Started out with a “Friday Afternoon Art Fair” at AIS-D…
  
  
….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…
   
   
   
 
.. and finally to Dhaka University’s Jagannath [...]

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!
 
Here is a detail from this painting – I love the “landscape-like” feel…
 
Great exhibition, enjoyed viewing all the artwork from all 11 artists who participated.

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 / gallery [...]

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 [...]

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
   
 
ROKEYA
  
SMITA
       
UJWALA
           
ANIL [some of [...]

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 were after. [...]

An art exhibition of drawings and paintings by

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!
 
…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. The exhibition [...]

       Jhaal Muri
An Art & Photography Exhibition on Bangladesh Street Culture by
Rokeya ~ Kuhu  ~ Smita ~ Ujwala ~ Anil
 
His Excellency Mr. Pinak Ranjan Chakravarty, High Commissioner of India to Bangladesh,
will inaugurate the event.

 
8th November 2008 at 7:00 PM
 Bay’s Galleria 5th Floor 57 Gulshan Avenue Dhaka Bangladesh
 
The exhibition will remain open 8th to 23rd November [...]

Did two visits to “Passion of Thai Modern Art” – an art exhibition at Siam Paragon with 81 art pieces from KASIKORNBANK’s contemporary collection and another 127 sculptures and 93 paintings from the Bangkok Sculpture Center’s collection displayed over 4 floors of space. The mix of Buddhism and Buddhist influences in the Modern Art of Thailand [...]