The Cloak of Culture
In this age information is accessible with just a few clicks, experiencing virtual 3-dimensional walks through corridors of art spaces while enjoying [...]
Art Seminars and Conferences
A question I am a little too frequently asked by my students is ‘Does art really have to be talked about?’. I co-teach a course at the National Colleg [...]
Editorial
Historically the word Diaspora was employed for Jews living outside the Promised Land, but in the recent years, the term is attached to displaced comm [...]
EDITORIAL FN
The Islamabad Literature Festival, like the Karachi Literature Festival, has been expanding over the last few years to include all forms of art, not j [...]
Book Review – Rasheed Araeen: To the West With Love
The book The Triumph of Icarus is a compilation of essays based on the “Life and Arts of Rasheed Araeen.” Araeen is a renowned London-based artist, or [...]
Miniature Paintings
Miniature painting is one of the few vehicles of Indo-Pak art forms that makes it into the western imagination. As culturally misapplied as it is, the [...]
When I Wake Up In The Morning
A recent exhibition of two well established artists, Nurayah Sheikh and Rabeya Jalil, drew upon original reserves of personal struggles, discoveries a [...]
Displacement Anxieties
Too often we underestimate the power of place in our lives. The sense of belonging it evokes at times and alienation at others. The concept of displac [...]
Reverberating Sounds Echo Through the Desert
Identity has an impact on politics, economy, culture and the arts. The Sindh art show at Koel Gallery piqued this experience for many. It refreshed th [...]
Basir Mahmood: Three Works
Basir Mahmood, a graduate of the Beaconhouse National University, is the most recent graduate of a slew of now internationally-known Pakistani artists [...]