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Designs in the "Pregnant Body" section are displayed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute exhibition, "Costume Art," on Saturday, 2 May, 2026, in New York. Photo: UNB

Met Gala fashion show aims to reclaim overlooked body types in art history

The exhibition features around 400 items, many displayed on newly designed mannequins based on real people with diverse body shapes and conditions

A mural in the southern Greek city of Kalamata, inspired by legendary soprano Maria Callas. Photo: UNB/AP

Olives, opera and climate vision: Greek mural named world's best

The shift taking place in Hazaribagh is not about hiding the area’s industrial scars behind white gallery walls. Instead, it is a slow, unforced dialogue between the people who stayed and the artists who arrived. Photo: Brihatta Art Foundation

Why has Hazaribagh evolved as the new home to Dhaka’s art scene?

Stefania Terre, who is blind, uses a small light on her fingers while touching a life-size reproduction of the head of Michelangelo's David as she poses for a long-exposure photograph at the Omero Tactile Museum in Ancona, Italy, on 15 January 2026. Photo: AP/UNB

Italy gets creative as it works to make art accessible for blind people

Illustration: TBS

Why art must be central to a child’s education

Photos: Mehedi Hasan

Bloodlines and brushtrokes: Exploring a family through art

Each Bangladeshi contribution carried its own voice—some social, others mythical or political—but together, they painted a portrait of a nation negotiating identity through creativity. Photos: Courtesy

Bangladeshi art finds a home in Busan

Photo: Mubi

Why art heists exploded in the 1970s

Photos: Mehedi Hasan

On the Horizon: Trivedi Gupu paints the space between seeing and feeling

Photo: UNB/AP

Van Gogh museum reveals rare Roulin exhibit

In this handout photo released Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2025 by Italy’s Carabinieri Cultural Heritage Protection Command, two officers pose with some of the 21 artworks from the exhibition “Dali. Between Art and Myth” that were seized on suspicion of being fakes, in Parma, northern Italy, Tuesday, 30 Sept, 2025. Photo: UNB/AP.

Italy seizes 21 Salvador Dalí artworks over forgery suspicions

The academy is now criticised for being more commercial than cultural, more political than independent, and more about bureaucracy than art. Graphics: TBS

How Shilpakala Academy is gradually losing its lustre

Photo: Mehedi Hasan

Art as dialogue: Inside 9+ONE at Edge Gallery