The Critique of Institutions: A Not-So-Helpful Guide To Life After Art School
The discussion often arises, particularly at this time of the year where colleges and universities wrap up their academic year and degrees are handed [...]
On Art and Labour: Dilemmas of the Emerging Artist
From the very beginning, artists are trained and expected to sacrifice everything for their art, including their own self-interest. Emerging artists a [...]
In Conversation with Ambereen Karamat
Ambreen Karamat has recently established White Turban, a company that deals with Pakistani art and promotes it in the country and internationally. Kar [...]
Rasheed Araeen
Rasheed Araeen, born in 1935, is a London-based conceptual artist, writer, and curator. He graduated with a degree in civil engineering from the Unive [...]
Editorial
For many, four years of training in the visual arts at an art institute, are spent as if being inside a dream; in which – like every other dream, all [...]
Editorial January 2015
One of the interesting events I went to in 2014 was attending Dreamscape at Amin Gulgee Gallery. A spectacle like no other, the show was an evening of [...]
A Persistence of Vision
Moeen Faruqi’s transcendent canvases touch upon the human experience, revolving around slumber, companionship, solitude and death. A self-proclaimed v [...]
A History of Art in a Few Words
The Department of Fine Arts, established by Anna Molka Ahmed in 1940 at the University of the Punjab, has been producing artists and designers of high [...]
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Out of Her Shell, In Her [skin]
Samina Mansuri constructs a startlingly tactile experience with the body of work on display in ‘Shell [skin]’. The artist, based in Canada, returned t [...]