Book Review: Karachi Cartographies
Extending the Life of an Exhibition Through PublicationWhile exhibitions exist within a limited moment in time, publications allow their idea [...]
Navigating Memories
Recently Canvas Gallery, Karachi hosted a group showcase of artists whose practice delights in emotional, expressive and texture laden narratives. Th [...]
Begi-Nama: Recovering the Unseen Through Speculation
History often survives through what it chooses to remember. The Mughal Empire (1526–1857), one of South Asia's most extensively documented dynast [...]
The Politics of Mapping Karachi
To understand Karachi, one must first learn how to read it. Not only through its roads, neighbourhoods, and coastline, but through the maps, reco [...]
Glimpse into the Collection of Dr Furqan Ahmed
This photo essay brings together a selection of works exhibited across the galleries. While it does not encompass the entire collection, it offer [...]
Karachi Cartography Opening in Karachi
Dr Furqan Ahmed's collection was exhibited at Koel Gallery and Canvas Gallery on June 5, 2026. This photo essay is a collection of the images fro [...]
Dr Furqan Ahmed – Cartographer of Memory
There are collectors who acquire objects, and then there are those rare individuals who collect histories. Dr. Furqan Ahmed belongs firmly to the [...]
Art Dubai at 20: Celebrating Two Decades of Cultural Transformation
Over the past two decades, Dubai has undergone one of the most remarkable cultural transformations in the region. What was once a city primarily asso [...]
Saif Azzuz: Mapping Indigenous Survival Through Sculpture
For his first large-scale outdoor public art commission, artist Saif Azzuz presents weych-pues / tàkhòne (where the rivers meet), a monumental sc [...]
Tale of Two Painters
Brothers of the Brush brings together two painters from different artistic characters whose practices nevertheless converge through a shared comm [...]