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Interview: Digital transitions
Mounting a solo after an absence of several years artist Sabah Hussain, presently director Lahore Arts Foundation Trust, and adjunct…
Artist’s work: Head to head
Artists have their distinct ways of construing the unpalatable incidents and events that happen around them on a regular basis.…
The price of departure
I received Lubna Agha’s obituary almost two weeks after she passed away. It also took a week or so for…
Artfiend: The magic of Mashkoor
More than two decades ago, artist Mashkoor Raza was referred to as “a talented young artist with an unsteady direction,…
Graffiti: Street art and the Arab Spring
Street art is unsanctioned visual art practice in public places that questions the existing environment about socially relevant themes. Street…
Artist’s perspective: Just black and white
Amna Ilyas, young sculptor and installation maker, has questioned potential viewers with the following discourse; “Those who count themselves among…
Exhibition: Concealing the visible
Objectivism describes art’s role in the life of a human being and the basic principles and doctrines that are applied…
Exhibition: Looking back
Nusra Latif Qureshi belongs to the initial group of Lahore’s NCA’s miniature mavericks who reinvented the genre as an edgy…
Art fiend: When teachers became artists
There has been a fresh stirring in the breeze at the Karachi School of Arts Gallery, Karachi. To celebrate the…
Art mart: Engaging enigmas
“Dot to dot” is a term usually used for an engaging puzzle wherein one uses a pen or pencil to…
Foreign palette: Going places…
Young artist Adeelul Zafar’s novel concept and innovative workmanship first gained critical acclaim when he exhibited in the 2009 VM…
Photo art: True ambassadors in photographs
One evening in the 1950s a sweet old lady went up to a Jazz musician and said, “Tell me Mr…
Art fiend: Opposing imagery, comparable conception
An exhibition currently being held at the Khaas Art Gallery in Islamabad contains the creative approaches of two artists from…
Poignant works: Reality check
In the crowd of titillating, marketable shows, subtle, understated exhibitions like ‘Rupture/rapture’ at VM Art gallery, Karachi, can easily go…
Exhibition: Exploring folklore
The Drawing Studio is a small but selective gallery of Lahore, dedicated mainly to the showcasing of contemporary art ever…
Art mart: Striking gold
It is not just William Wordsworth who was taken in by nature and composed many a poem on the subject.…
Art beat: The festivity of art and life
They say art reflects life. We live in an era where almost on a daily basis something terrible happens that…
Artmache: All in good cause
This spring, artist Shahid Rassam raised funds for a children’s charity by painting live to the poetry of Ashafq Husain…
Critical Space: Expanding audiences
Contemporary art as never before, has brought people’s personal and collective issues to the foreground and yet suffers a great…
Book review: Offerings of a devout servant
A massive book of over 500 pages, In Search of my Master, is an in-depth chronicle of the works of…
Artist’s work: Onward journey
Modernist Meher Afroz’s oeuvre has always centered on introspection and evaluation of self and society as read through the lens…
Young at art: So young and fresh
Those of you, who despair that Pakistan lacks new talent in the realm of art, time to have that beaming…
Exhibition: Inner landscapes and mind maps
Lines, colours, textures and shapes have an intrinsic language of their own. Whether or not these basic elements of art…
Interview: A clay odyssey
Pottery, one of our oldest art forms, is in dire need of revitalisation. If we wish to see it as…
Art fiend: The classical approach
One’s first response to the recent work of Zulfikar Ali Zulfi was elicited by viewing of the beautifully printed catalogue…
Photo art: Images frozen in time
In terms of age, the art of dance and the art of photography are at different extremes. The former is…
Artfiend: Master at work
Recently it came as a pleasant surprise for many art lovers when they heard that distinguished Pakistani artist (who now…
Photography: A paean to Sufi thought
More than just an exhibition of photographs ‘Baraka silsila-e-nisbat’ by Farah Mahbub hits the eye as inspired art—a devotee’s declaration—essentially…
Young at art: The aesthetics of paper
‘Paper One’ was a collaborative between four Lahore-based artists that recently took place at the Khaas Gallery in Islamabad. Paper…
Foreign palette: The mystery of art
Wooed by the muse of the mundane, artist Ayaz Jokhio reposes his faith in the mystery of art. His current…
