“Art –A New Approach”
“Art – A New Approach”, a group show featuring Sarah Hashmi, Dua Abbas, Ali Mansur and Scheherezade Junejo, makes no bones about being anything but th [...]
Philosophy: A Photographic Exhibition Arif Mehmood
Arif Mehmood is known for his street photography, but his works are not in the journalistic vein one most often associates with street photography in [...]
Dua Abbas Rizvi
Although the Pakistani art machinery keeps churning out many exciting shows throughout the year to which we respond with nice little spatters of appla [...]
Antonia Laura
Art Now – Responses fromTalks to Antonia Carver and Laura Egerton and Antonia Carver
ArtNow talks to Antonia Carver, Fair Director, and Laura Egert [...]
Nancy Adajania
The Critical Importance of Pedagogy for Biennales in the Global South
Nancy Adajania
Having just co-curated the 9th Gwangju Biennale, this essay w [...]
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The Exhibitionary Complex, [revisited]
In all their spectacular glory, art fairs and biennials are often cited interchangeably as the exemplary exhibitionary sites of international contempo [...]
Book Review:The Rest Is Silance
The Rest is Silence: Zahoor Ul Akhlaq: Art and Society in Pakistan
By Roger Connah. 350 pages. Oxford University Press.
By Zarmina Rafi
While Roger [...]
Fifty Shades of Emerald, “Desires of Memory”, and other tales of nostalgia
Not fifty; there were twelve. Twelve shades of emerald, serving as backgrounds for twelve paintings. Layered upon with a mélange of linear imagery in [...]
Many Ways, Multiple Choices: “Intimacy” at Koel Gallery
On first encounter, Intimacy provokes memories of space and intense feelings. Curated by Maha Malik at Koel Gallery in Karachi, the show presents an i [...]
CANVASSING FOR ART – SAMEERA RAJA
For the past fourteen years Sameera Raja, the director of Canvas Gallery, has been contributing to the development of Pakistani art in more ways than [...]