Ussman aur Mein
When artist Ussman Ghouri passed away last year, he left behind a vast collection of unfinished pieces. For the group exhibit "Ussman aur Mein," 67 of [...]
The Process of Poetry
Mian Ijaz ul Hassan is one of those rare Pakistani painters who are relentless in pursuing poetry in real life and who, like unabashed Romantics, insi [...]
Sublime Encounters
“The greatest mystery is not that we have been flung at random between the profusion of the earth and the galaxy of the stars, but that in this prison [...]
Cityscape/Landscape
Bend in the Scapes” at Satrang Gallery in Islamabad presents metropolitan, bucolic and ‘mental’ landscapes by seven Pakistani and one Swedish artist. [...]
Book Review: Painting – Documents of Contemporary Art
In his introduction, Myers quotes painter Paul Delaroche’s proclamation on first seeing a daguerreotype (the first commercially successful photographi [...]
Memoirs of Art in Pakistan
Marjorie Husain is an integral part of the Pakistani art scene on several levels: artist, art critic, curator, writer and documenter, lecturer, a clos [...]
Like a Magician’s Act
Hasnat Mehmood talks to ArtNow about why he oscillates between various art forms and why he challenges ideas about traditions.
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Globalism in the Wake of Conceptual Art
The art history and art theory of the 20th century was dominated by a methodology that equates the pictorial with the linguistic. In the most extreme [...]
Nashmia Haroon captures Art in Words
Ancient handwritten book, Museum of Natural History, New York.
Text for ‘Mazar Bazar’, an exhibition and book launch at the Zahoor ul Ikhlaq Galler [...]
Peeling the Proverbial Onion
To address the relationship between art and language one must revisit the circular history of modern avant-gardism of 1960s Britain - the birth of con [...]