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  Brazil’s National Museum pleads for money

  Agence France-Presse . Rio de Janeiro | Updated at 12:00am on May 10, 2019

  Brazil’s devastated National Museum is broke and cannot afford storage for artifacts rescued from the ashes of the gutted building, its director said Tuesday.In a...

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  Lloyd Webber is richest UK musician

  Agence France-Presse . London | Updated at 12:00am on May 10, 2019

  Broadway giant Andrew Lloyd Webber has leapfrogged Beatles legend Paul McCartney to become Britain’s wealthiest musician with an estimated fortune of £820 million ($1 billion,...

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  Valparaiso, an open air graffiti and mural art gallery

  Agence France-Presse . Valparaíso | Updated at 12:00am on May 10, 2019

  Creating colorful pictures of surreal human faces, marine animals or even huge owls, hundreds of graffiti artists have turned the Chilean port of Valparaiso into...

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  Banita Sandhu joins Pandora

  Culture Desk | Updated at 12:00am on May 10, 2019

  Bollywood actress Banita Sandhu will be seen in Priscilla Quintana starrer action series Pandora, reports Hindustan Times.The series stars Oliver Dench, Raechelle Banno, John Harlan...

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  Irrfan shares note on his road to recovery

  Culture Desk | Updated at 12:00am on May 10, 2019

  Irrfan Khan was out of the public eye for a long time. The Bollywood actor, who went to London in 2018 after being diagnosed with...

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  Shonibar Bikel to participate in film fest in Sydney

  Cultural Correspondent | Updated at 12:00am on May 10, 2019

  Mostofa Sarwar Farooki’s unreleased film Shonibar Bikel is going to participate in the upcoming Sydney Film Festival in Australia.Earlier, Shonibar Bikel won Russian Federation of...

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  Tagore’s Manbhanjan gets made into web series

  Cultural Correspondent | Updated at 12:00am on May 10, 2019

  Nobel laureate poet Rabindranath Tagore’s short story Manbhanjan has been made into a web series, which will start streaming on hoichoi, a Bengali digital platform,...

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  5 Bangladeshi artists to participate in Venice Biennale

  Cultural Correspondent | Updated at 12:00am on May 10, 2019

  Five leading Bangladesh artists led by Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy director general Liaquat Ali Lucky are set to showcase their works in the upcoming Venice Biennale...

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  Celebrating the painter Rabindranath Tagore

  | Updated at 12:00am on May 10, 2019

  The most celebrated Bengali poet, playwright, novelist and thinker, Rabindranath Tagore’s paintings have long been an enigma to many. If they have commanded attention of...

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  Bangla Academy honours Tagore singer, researchers

  Cultural Correspondent | Updated at 12:00am on May 10, 2019

  Bangla Academy honoured noted Rabindra Sangeet singer Iqbal Mahmud and Tagore researchers professor Shafiuddin Ahmed and professor Begum Akhter Kamal with Rabindra Puraskar 2019 on...