Arjumand Painting Award 2015
17th May 2015 saw the inauguration of a new event on the Pakistani art calendar, the Arjumand Painting Award. In a country all but devoid of governmen [...]
In Conversation with Ayesha Zulfiqar
Ayesha Zulfiqar is an artist and art educator, recently returned after her post graduate studies in UK. Before acquiring her MA, she taught at NCA, an [...]
The Voice of the Artist
If someday you have a few months to spare, come to Barbary...you will feel the precious and exceptional influence of the sun, which gives everything a [...]
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (of Letters)
There are many things that can prompt an artist to put aside the usual apparatus for some time and write: uncooperative weather, the horrors of a poor [...]
Lala Rukh: A Visual Synopsis
by Sehr Jalil Raja
This is Lahore, 1982, and a group of fifteen jovial women pose for the camera – 1982: General Zia ul-Haq’s regime, i.e., the time [...]
And Nothing But The Truth
Honesty, freedom, fearlessness: such words are gospel for an artist in an age where our local and global sociopolitics influence these notions. It is [...]
Making the Meaning of Art
Installation art is difficult to describe. It is created at a specific space and is constructed incorporating materials or physical features of a site [...]