Noted singers enthral crowd
Cultural Correspondent
Noted singers from home and abroad enthralled an audience at a concert at the Bashundhara Convention Centre in the city by their performances on Friday.
Clapper Events organised the event titled Dhaka Rock Fest. Band groups including Fossils from India and Miles, Warfaze, Artcell, Powersurge and Black and from Bangladesh performed at the open air concert.
The festival started at about 4:00pm with Powersurge, the winner of D-Rock Stars 2.
They started with the track Aprastut juddha and continued with Black head and many more.
They managed to set the tone for the show and after that it was the turn of Black to come on the stage. Black performed many of their popular numbers including 35, 'Prasnabodhak chinha' and many more tracks.
As the evening started to set in it was the turn of Artcell, one of the most popular bands stepped up onto the stage.
They dished out one song after the other which managed to set the crowd to frenzy.
After Artcell, Warfaze with their new line up entertained the crowd with tracks such as Ekti chhele.
Once Warfaze finished, the much awaited band Fossils from India stepped onto the stage. They started with Ma.
Their subject oriented songs managed to grab the attention of the crowd. The show was concluded by the popular band Miles with eight of their tracks such as Phiriye dao and others.
Channel-i, Radio Foorti and AmaderGaan.com were the official partners of the event.
Van Gogh fails to sell at auction
BBC Online
A Vincent Van Gogh painting has failed to sell at an art auction in New York.
Sotheby’s was hoping The Wheat Fields would fetch up to $35m (£16.7m), but it failed to reach its undisclosed reserve or attract a bid over $25m (£11.9m).
The landscape was painted in 1890, just two weeks before the artist’s suicide, and is considered to be possibly his last finished work. ‘Our estimates were obviously not accepted by the market,’ a Sotheby’s spokesman said.
The Wheat Fields was not the only painting that failed to sell at the auction.
Twenty out of the 76 lots on offer failed to attract buyers, including four works by Picasso and others by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Henri Matisse, and Claude Monet.
Among the few successes of the night was Picasso’s Tete de Femme, which fetched $29.1m (£13.8m), setting a new record at auction for a sculpture by the artist.
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