Women Artists
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Yasmin Mushtari Is Judging the Next Generation—and Archiving the One That Came Before
Veteran Nazrul singer Yasmin Mushtari has joined singer Sumi Sharmin as a judge for a Bangladesh Shishu Academy competition. Mushtari’s own digital archive, launched in 2025, adds another layer to the story: women artists are not only making culture, but increasingly taking responsibility for preserving their own record
Aparna Ghose Lives in Japan Now. Bangladesh Still Lives Inside Her Creative Identity
Two-time National Film Award winner Aparna Ghose now teaches in Japan, years after building a career across theatre, television and cinema. Her story complicates a familiar assumption: moving abroad does not erase a woman’s artistic identity—or the country that helped form it.
A Dhaka Dance Workshop Treats Women’s Bodies as Archives, Not Objects
A feminist dance-theatre workshop opening in Banani on Thursday will ask performers to explore how women carry memory, labour, faith, regulation, conflict and joy through the body. Its premise shifts the female body from something audiences look at to something that remembers and speaks.
Swagata’s Career Makes a Case Against Telling Women Artists to Pick One Lane
Zinat Sanu Swagata has worked across acting, music, modelling and presenting since childhood. A piece of advice from Abdullah Al Mamun helped shape that path: becoming an actor did not mean abandoning directing or music. Her career shows why women’s creative identities do not have to fit one label.
Swagata’s Career Makes a Case Against Telling Women Artists to Pick One Lane
Zinat Sanu Swagata has worked across acting, music, modelling and presenting since childhood. A piece of advice from Abdullah Al Mamun helped shape that path: becoming an actor did not mean abandoning directing or music. Her career shows why women’s creative identities do not have to fit one label.
Runa Laila Is Alive. The AI Death Hoax Shows How Easily a Cultural Icon Can Be Turned Into Clickbait
AI-generated videos and images falsely claiming that Runa Laila was dying or dead circulated online this week. Her daughter confirmed the singer is healthy and urged followers to report the accounts. The episode raises a cultural question as much as a technology one: who protects an artist’s identity when anyone can manufacture a convincing false version of her life?
Final Days: 23 Women Artists Refuse to Let Suffering Define Womanhood in ‘Lobongolotika’
A major group exhibition at Edge Gallery brings together 23 women artists to explore autonomy, imagination, desire, joy and creative power—challenging the idea that women’s strength must always be defined through suffering or sacrifice.