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. [...]
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 [...]
Editorial
‘In the beginning was the Word’- but according to another divine narration, ‘God created man in His own image.’ So what came first, the word or the im [...]
Editorial
There is a famous line describing the character of Pakistan’s national cricket team. ‘The only team in the world who is able to clench defeat from an [...]