Henri Matisse: Cut-Outs at the Tate Modern
“From the moment I held the box of colours in my hands”, Henri Matisse said of his discovery of painting, “I knew this was my life. I threw myself int [...]
A Conversation with Wardha Shabbir
Wardha Shabbir is a Lahore-based miniature artist who recently undertook an Artist in Residence programme at FLACC, Belgium, where she created interac [...]
Shahid Sajjad: The Non-conformist Guru – The Freethinking Maestro – The Passionate Soul
Shahid Sajjad: a man, an institution, beyond his Zeitgeist. He created his own language, made his own tools, defined his own ways of living and led a [...]
No Exit from Pakistan
In May 2013, The Roof Garden Commission: Imran Qureshi, opened on The Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New Y [...]
The Constructed Abstraction of Imagery
Faiza Butt’s show at Canvas Gallery titled ‘The Image of an Image’ is a cultural documentation on society, each piece, a visual representation of diff [...]
It Would Rain Anyway: A Case for the Mythic
In plain usage, ‘myth’ used to refer to a mistaken belief held as fact, especially the kind of belief that purports to explain something present, or e [...]
Letter from the Editor in Chief
The team at ArtNow has been busy this summer and we are happy to announce two new projects: the redesign of our website and the launch of a new initia [...]
Editorial
To some extent the museum has replaced the church in our times, because now a large number of people across the world regularly visit museums instead [...]
Faiza Butt: “We can only live because we imagine that we are infinite.”
Faiza Butt is one of Pakistan’s most dynamic artists. Charismatic, passionate, and intelligent, she successfully transfers those qualities into her ar [...]