Art For a Cause
As I sit watching Professor Salima Hashmi, the matriarch of Pakistani Art, speak of the triumph of the Lahore Literary Festival’s second London editio [...]
In Good Company? Retrospectives and Global Art History
In 1855 French painter Gustave Courbet mounted an exhibition of his work titled the “Pavilion of Realism” outside the grand Exposi [...]
PORTRAIT OF HUSSAIN AS AN ARTIST
Imam Hussain is a figure revered by Muslim across regions, sects and ethnicities. The grandson of the Holy Prophet was martyred for his idea [...]
Rooms Are Never Finished
The rhythms and proportions of the city are in a perpetual state of motion. Always unfinished, never stagnant, mobilized by the quest for it [...]
Letter from the Editor
Many years ago, I watched a documentary on Philip Guston, the American Abstract Expressionist. Walking alone, wearing a long coat, in the de [...]
Living Veins
‘Of Other Spaces’ was a group show by a collective of 12 artists at the site of an uninhabitable house and entailed the exploration of a space that is [...]
“Kisa Goyee”
Opening days for art galleries always mean a small meet and greet where familiar faces mill around and gleeful conversations fill the air mixed with t [...]
Short Stories
Fleeting fictional anecdotes, bright with embellishment, thick with meaning and colored by the ghosts of memory, history and imagination may form the [...]
Super Duper Perspective
A perspective is always subjective in nature. A singular opinion, a belief, a point of view, varies on the account of the individuals person [...]