“পরম্পরার খোঁজে বরেন্দ্র ভ্রমণ” শীর্ষক চিত্র প্রদর্শনী
গ্যালারী চিত্রক অনুষ্ঠিত হলো “পরম্পরার খোঁজে বরেন্দ্র ভ্রমণ” শীর্ষক দলগত চিত্র প্রদর্শনী।
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Five exhibitions to see now and soon
Three shows are open and two more open within the month. A short guide to what is on, where, and how to get your free ticket.
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Seven ways to enjoy a crowded exhibition opening
Openings are lively and loud. A few simple habits make it easier to actually see the art, and to enjoy the evening.
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Slow looking: ten minutes with “Village Music”
A practical exercise for visitors: choose one picture, give it ten minutes and see what changes. We try it on a quiet painting by Abanindranath Tagore.
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How free tickets work on ChitraBarta
Registering for an exhibition takes under a minute and costs nothing. Here is how the ticket, the QR code and the check at the gate work, and what to do if you lose your ticket.
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Rabindranath Tagore, painter: faces that began as doodles
The poet began to paint seriously in his late sixties. The haunting faces and birds that followed are often said to have grown out of the scratchings in the margins of his manuscripts.
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Old Dhaka on paper: Charles D’Oyly and the views of a vanished city
In the early nineteenth century a British official in Dhaka drew its mosques, markets and ruined bridges and had them printed. Two hundred years on, his pictures are among the best records of the old city.
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Wash, mist and memory: a short guide to the Bengal School
At the start of the twentieth century a circle of painters around Abanindranath Tagore turned away from academic realism and looked to Indian traditions. Here is what they made, and how to recognise it.
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Kalighat pat: the bold, witty paintings of a Calcutta temple street
In the nineteenth century, painters who sold pictures to pilgrims outside the Kalighat temple turned a village scroll tradition into a sharp-eyed art of the city.