South Asia at Seventy
This essay focuses on a few prominent historical figures and movements in the art history of South Asia that laid the foundation of the art we see tod [...]
Half-Truths
Capturing an image today has, quite literally, become as easy as clicking a button. Viewing, sharing and duplicating that photograph has bec [...]
Enigmatic Spaces
Tulamba is a small city in Punjab located on the eastern edge of River Ravi in the Khanewal district. Recent excavations suggest the area to be inhabi [...]
Silent Noise
The oxymoron, ‘Silent Noise’ is a baffling contradiction which highlights discord between thought and sound, feeling and action. There is tr [...]
Marvels of Illusion
An invention during the early Rennaissance, anamorphosis obeys all laws of perspective, usually more strictly than any other forms. However, [...]
Jamal Shah, A Man of Many Dimensions
For Jamal Shah art and cultural creativity are a vital necessity for any society. Over a cup of coffee at our meeting at the PNCA he explain [...]
Land – Escape
When the eye perceives an image, it sends it to the brain for interpretation where we make sense of what we are seeing. We ingest the image [...]
Visiting Home
Durr-e-Waseem’s latest works demonstrate her appreciation for impressionism. Being a very influential art movement back in the nineteenth century, the [...]