Without Permission
In Saadat Hasan Manto’s short story, ‘Beghair Ijaazat’ (Without Permission), the protagonist finds himself in a series of misplaced location [...]
In conversation with Mariah Lookman
Mariah Lookman is an artist, researcher and curator, and holds holds a DPhil from the University of Oxford, an MA from the Slade School of Fine Art an [...]
The Creation of the Archive: KB as phenomenon
ZS: This is a strange position to be in – and a strangely difficult one to occupy: to talk about the Karachi Biennale, speaking at once from a positio [...]
On a Carousel of Time
When F. Scott Fitzgerald spoke about the human condition, he took its relationship with time as an incessant cycle of challenging the ‘current’ of c [...]
Book Review: Consolidating Karachi with Biennale
The remarkable success of Karachi Biennale 17, is repeated, again, in the form of its catalogue, because as the event took place two years a [...]
Banal Phrases and Lost Meaning
The act of creating contemporary art has challenged set norms of image making. Indian miniature painting, for instance, has emboldened via c [...]
Syed Ali Imam- Iron Jawed
Every time I sneak around and snoop into the life of an artist, I draw some kind of a guilty pleasure. Looking back at artists’ lives does not only in [...]
The BP Portrait Award (London 2019)
Portraiture is, without any doubt, one of the most important categories in history of art. Along with landscapes, portraiture is probably th [...]