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Rare artworks of eminent artists from home and abroad are on display at the new gallery of the Asiatic Society of Bangladesh at Nimtali in Dhaka.
   The society opened the gallery on Saturday kicking off a 15-day exhibition on the occasion of International Mother Language Day and Sheheed Dibas. The organisers also arranged the show to pay homage to the martyrs of the historic Language Movement in 1952.
   About 50 paintings of the artists are on display at the show, which was opened by the Dhaka University vice-chancellor, SMA Faiz. ‘The gallery would meet the necessity of a permanent gallery in the city’, said Faiz after inaugurating the show.
   As a special guest, Shilpachariya Zainul Abedin’s wife Jahanara Abedin expressed her delight for the opening of a new gallery.
   Chairman of the University Grants Commission, Professor Nazrul Islam, society’s general secretary Professor Mahfuza Khanam and honorary director of the Asiatic Society Gallery of Fine Art, Professor Hamiduzzaman Khan, spoke, among others, at the function.
   The speakers said the new gallery would enrich the cultural arena alongside inspiring the artists of the country.
   They also stressed for establishing more permanent art galleries in the country.
   Appreciating the international exhibition, they said it would create an opportunity for the local artists to enjoy the artworks of the other countries.
   The organisers have collected some rare artworks of the country’s eminent artists and many of them have not been exhibited earlier.
   They have collected some of the works of Shilpachariya Zainul Abedin, Patua Quamrul Hasan, SM Sultan, Abdur Razzaque, Aminul Islam, Muhammad Kibria, Devdas Chakroborty, Rashid Chowdhury, Murtaja Baseer, Mustafa Monwar, Qayyum Chowdhury, Syed Jahangir and others.
   Among the foreign artists, Sumita Chauhan, Babu Nimboodori K and Golam Sheikh from India, Shashi Bikram Shah and Uttam Nepali from Nepal, Sujlee Ibrahim and Mastura Haji Mohammad Jarit from Malaysia, Sarantis Gagas and Georgia Grigoriadou from Greece, Professor Peter Kustermann and Professor Dorothea Fleiss from Germany, Mela Ferrer from Spain and Clave Mitten from the United Kingdom are participating at the exhibition.
   Photographs on the Native Americans by the US expatriate photographer Obaidullah Mamoon are also on display at the exhibition.
   The organisers have put some of the artworks on sale. The show will remain open from 2:00pm to 8:00pm every day till February 24.

The Bangladesh Film Archives has planned to bring out a yearly journal with the research works on the history, development and preservation of films in Bangladesh.
   The organisation requests the writers, who are interested to write on films, to send their articles by March 31 at 12 Ghaznabi Road (3rd floor) in Mohammadpur in Dhaka.
   The organisers have requested the writers to follow the spelling guided by the Bangla Academy in writing their articles, which will not be more than 5,000 words.
   The articles, published earlier, will not be accepted and they should be basic and research-based. They have also requested the writers to mention the names of the books, publishers date and pages as references.
   For more information, the writers are requested to contact the film archives officials.