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SENSE AND SENSIBILITY
The starving artist is no longer fashionable. Alongside creating artworks for pleasure, present day artists want to ensure that they can earn a livelihood through their art. The global art scene has developed to allow artists to sustain on their works but the Bangladeshi art market is still stuck in an era where experience triumphs over talent. Art in Bangladesh can only flourish if we are ready to invest in our young artists.
UPASHANA SALAM
One would like to imagine that art is not beholden to unsavoury commercialism and is above the baseness of material greed. But then even artists have to eat. An art gallery can provide artists with the vital support to make…