Other Spaces
In darkened rooms at Taseer Art Gallery, Uzair Amjad, Zaineb Siddique and Ahmed Faizan Naveed held a show titled ‘Other Spaces’. Although the work lis [...]
Interview with Shireen Kamran
Aziz Sohail: Tell me a bit about your path to becoming an artist
Shireen Kamran: I started school late, when I was 40, once I moved to Montreal abo [...]
Between, Across and Through
This work is about following. I follow myself with a camera, and frame where I am. As the shutter opens and closes, it becomes where I was. Looking ba [...]
Amin Rehman: A Subversive Scribe
‘He had been taught that language was essentially inadequate, that it could never speak what was there, that it only spoke itself…What had happened to [...]
Studio Visit: Pietro Ruffo
In the heart of San Lorenzo’s neighbourhood in Rome, a pasta factory was transformed into a “creativity building” in the early 80s when some artists d [...]
Visit: Aisha Khalid
Her CV is kept in the last page of my diary; I’ve let the load of her achievements dissolve with the rain on this beautiful day. I feel small – yet – [...]
The Return of the Diaspora: Some Scattered Remarks
“Diasporist art is contradictory at its heart, being both internationalist and particularist. It can be inconsistent, which is a major blasphemy again [...]
Book Review — Right to the City: Travel Guide to Karachi
In 1968, French philosopher Henri Lefebvre published Le Droit à la Ville (The Right to the City), in which he argued that it is the right of citizens [...]
EDITORIAL APRIL 2014
March saw a flurry of activities connecting Pakistani artists and the international art community. On the first of March, ArtNow organized an exhibiti [...]