Broken Integrity – Khat-e Mahi, Khat-e Paikan, and Khat-e Munfarid: Design Experiments in Non-cursive Fonts for Urdu, Persian and Arabic Scripts
history of Nastaliq and its inventor, the fourteenth century calligrapher Mir Ali Tabrizi, I realized how, despite the long tradition of abstraction i [...]
Politics of Language, Colonisation, and Visuality
THE COMMAND OF LANGUAGE AND THE LANGUAGE OF COMMAND
Johannes Fabian, in Language and Colonial Power, begins by telling us a story about Catherine the [...]
Art and Text: A Cursory Overview
In contrast to the Enlightenment, during which ideas were coalescing and crystallizing into relative clarity fuelled in part by humanist self-belief a [...]
Reimagining the Past
The recent exhibition at Koel Gallery offers a snippet of the interesting concerns that Karachi’s young artists are grappling with. As five Karachi Un [...]
Skyline at Elgiz Museum
Istanbul contains a fascinating blend of secular and religious elements. It is a modern city evolving but still carries with it its ancient historical [...]
Body and Body in the Community
An atom, as Webster’s New Collegiate Dictionary states, is the smallest particle of an element that can exist either alone or in combination.An at [...]
Mohammad Ali Talpur: Line, Language, Lacunas
by Dua Abbas Rizvi
In plays by Harold Pinter, the pause is where a lot of the action takes place. The pauses intercept and interlace the dialogue, dr [...]
In Conversation with Muhammad Zeeshan
by Shanzay Subzwari
Shanzay Subzwari: Hi Zeeshan, hope you’re well. You recently returned from your solo show in London. How was it received, and how [...]