The Role of the Artis
The Role of the Artist in Times of Terror
As terror and violence have become a growing reality of daily life across the globe, people have learned to [...]
Book Review: Dadi
Iftikhar Dadi’s Modernism and the Art of Muslim South Asia encompasses so many concerns in its title that the reader is obliged to begin the [...]
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 [...]