The third edition of the Dhaka Art Summit -- dubbed the world's largest platform for South Asian art-- will be held on February 5-8, 2016 at the Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy, the organisers announced in a press conference yesterday.

The weeklong Oriental Painting Exhibition, organised by Oriental Painting Study Group, will close this evening at the Zainul Gallery of Faculty of Fine Art, University of Dhaka.

A three- day water colour workshop titled “Experimenting with Soft Reflections” concluded at Gallery Cosmos, Malibagh, Dhaka, on Sunday.

Oriental Painting Study Group (OPSG) in association with The Daily Star has organised a weeklong (March 17-23) 5th “Oriental Painting Exhibition” at Zainul Gallery-1 and 2, Faculty of Fine Art, University of Dhaka.

Today (March 9) marks the 83rd birth anniversary of eminent artist and graphic designer Qayyum Chowdhury.

Indira Gandhi Cultural Centre (IGCC), Dhaka brought out an innovative table calendar for the year 2015, of which each month focuses on portraits of a great personality – from politicians, litterateurs, poets, artist, mystic bard, classical musician and religious and social reformers of both Bangladesh and India.

Shiro Sadoshima, a passionate artist and the Japanese ambassador to Bangladesh, paid his rich tribute to our culture, rendering Bangladeshi lives onto his canvases. The self-taught artist's maiden solo exhibition was jointly inaugurated by cultural affairs minister Asaduzzaman Noor and Anjan Chowdhury, chairman of Society for Promotion of Bangladesh Art (SPBA) at Zainul Gallery on March 2.

If anyone wanted to relax and simply be with nature one had only to go to the “Joy of Nature” exhibit at Alliance Francaise de Dhaka (AFD).

Art Bazar, a community of creative youths, held an open exhibition in Dhanmondi on February 28, of photos taken with mobile phones. Square-framed and panorama photos were on display on the walls of Dhanmondi 4/A from 3-9pm, while artists also drew free live caricatures of attending audience, while many played live music. The goal of the group is to establish mobile phone photography as an art form, and thus opening it up to the mass people.

A solo art exhibition by Isabel Zaman concluded at Drik Gallery in the capital on February 26. The five-day exhibit, titled “Bangladesh en mis ojos e yo” (Bangladesh and Me), featured artworks by the Mexican artist.

In his recently-concluded weeklong exhibition at Mumbai's busy Jehangir Art Gallery, Maksudul Ahsan showcased about 46 paintings -- mostly in acrylic and oil. Some of the large scale paintings hark back to the Partition of 1947 and its aftermath.