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ART MART: A Buyer’s Market
 The value of art as an investment, either to ensure its preservation or to increase it, grows in periods of social and political instability and currency fluctuation. Art works by prestigious masters become the safest investment in times of trouble.....
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COLUMN ART: Space, As Zahoorul Akhlaq Saw It
 At a recent show, a wall-sized painting triggered off the memory of Zahoor ul Akhlaq’s work through the 1990s. This was the decade before his untimely death. He had several shows at Chawkhandi Art Gallery, Karachi that displayed how his affair with space had intensified into passionate visual poetry.....
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ARTISTS WORK: A Promising Debut
 R M Naeem is an extraordinarily active and moti-vated man. He is a distinguished artist and educationist who has been a faculty member of NCA for fifteen years. During this time he has been very involved in the running of Studio RM.....
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CAREER IN ART: Art By The Diaspora
 Diaspora art, regardless of its home country, is generally marked by themes of remembrance, identity, sometimes displacement and the idea of settlement into communities that may be regarded as foreign. However, expression varies from one diaspora to another....
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BOOK MARK: Delightful Discourse
 We live in candy floss times, they say. Everything is soft, simple and mushy — pop culture reigns supreme. Even modern-day intellectualism reeks of straightforward- issue-mongering, particularly with reference to the paradigm shift that has taken place in ‘Pakistani art’, if there is such a thing....
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CAREER IN ART: Visual Journey
 Imran Mir calls his paintings ‘Papers on Modern Art’ and wonders why viewers see geometry in his work. To some extent he is right; but what one sees on his latest extra large canvases are forms constructed with derivations from geometry....
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