Nationalist Discourse on Traditional Arts
Pahari painting—sometimes referred to as Hill painting (Pahārī, “of the hills”)—were made during 17th-19th century in the Himalayan Hill kingdoms of N [...]
Book Review: Ijaz ul Hassan – Five Decades of Painting
The word ‘Internet’ is perhaps not imaginative enough to encompass all that it has come to mean. An exponential increase in information and the diffus [...]
The Critique of Art as Commodity
“Given two things that resemble one another to any chosen degree, but one of them a work of art and the other an ordinary object, what accounts for th [...]
Together We Stand Alone
“If you have to go crazy, please go crazy all by yourself!” Ursula tells her husband in Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s acclaimed novel, One Hundred Years of [...]
Eclectic Influences: Miniature Matters at VM Gallery
In 1981, American artist Sherrie Levine re-photographed the works of prominent photographers Edward Weston and Walker Evans instead of creating her ow [...]
Space, Earth, Landscape : Muhanned Cader at Koel Gallery
Is it a swallow in flight, or a slow dagger ascending, a map, a mask, the gruff mouth of a cave, or perhaps a nameless form? Sri Lankan artist Muhanne [...]
The Expressionist Impressionist
Iqbal Hussain was back in Islamabad for its third exhibition at Tanzara Gallery. Noshi Qadir, owner and director of the gallery, presented some of the [...]
Memoirs of the Future
Every year when the Young Artists Exhibition goes up at Lahore’s Alhamra Art Gallery, the excitement surrounding it reminds me of the buzz and drama t [...]
How the West was Won: Pakistani Artists Take On Western Art
Some artists working now in Pakistan challenge the global art world. Theirs is a critique of the power relations that exist between the East and West [...]
Editorial
Like machines, tools and art, boundaries and borders between countries are human inventions. Since the world as created by God did not have any such d [...]