The Kooky Indian Girl Who Once Lived in Lahore
Saira Ansari talks to Vidha Saumya, an Indian artist who came to study at BNU, Lahore. By her own admission, Saira Ansari, artist, critic an [...]
Mere Humd(r)um at Aicon Gallery – New York
Sadia Salim reviews a vibrant show of young Pakistan artists at Aicon Gallery New York.
On entering 35 Great Jones Street, I of [...]
In the Madding Crowd
Startling, acutely analytical, often bordering on inanity or crystalizing as profound, the volume Writers on Artists demonstrates that the possibiliti [...]
Rashid Arshed
ArtNow talks to Rashid Arshed, artist and former Principal CIAC about art past and art present.
ArtNow: You were Prin [...]
Curioser and Curioser
Dominic Rouse was born in England in 1959. His career began in photojournalism in 1977 and has progressed through various stages into the world of fin [...]
Sculptor Shahid Sajjad is the recipient of the Engro Excellence Award 2012
The Engro Excellence Awards held in Karachi for the second year running is gaining credence with the intelligentsia of the nation simply bec [...]
Adeela Suleman
As Bibi Shirini and other Pashto songs battle with roaring motorcycle engines in the semi-commercial area of Kashmir Colony, there lies a hidden secre [...]
Sex and Violence Death and Silence by Gordon Burn
Gordon Burn was a writer not an art critic. He wrote four well-received novels , one of them called Alma Cogen for which he received the Whitbread Fir [...]
Iqbal Geoffrey
My first awareness of Iqbal Geoffrey was through The Odder Storey, his very own one-man-show retrospective temporary-museum, within Rasheed Aræen’s 19 [...]
Disguises and Deceit: Saba Iqbal
In the psychological drama of everyday life, human beings react to events in strange and bizarre ways— people cry at graduations and weddings, others [...]