Author: Editor
Design, Dialogue and Direction: Zubyr Soomro in Conversation with Fawzia Naqvi
In this video interview headed by Fawzia Naqvi, Chief Editor of ArtNow Pakistan, Zubyr Soomro, the Director of Indus Valley School of Art & A [...]
Boldness and Quietness – The 2D world of Fine Arts 2025
The Fine Art Graduating Class of 2025 presented a wide range of projects, pushing boundaries of medium and storytelling. The 2D section of the sh [...]
Reimaging Fashion: IVS Fashion Design Showcase 2025
The Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture Fashion Design Class of 2025 showcased their thesis projects, a year-long culmination of garments [...]
Stitching the Contemporary: IVS Textile Design Showcase 2025
The Graduating Class of 2025 in Textile Design showcased mixed-media and innovative work in their thesis projects. From material-specific install [...]

IVS – History in Motion
It was during dark night, when the late Zahoor ul Akhlaq took me along to an unknown location. We reached somewhere near the sea-view, on a huge [...]
Welcome to the January Issue
As we step into a new year, I would like to begin by wishing our readers, artists, writers, and the wider art community a thoughtful, and g [...]
Three Encounters with the Indus
The River Sublime brings together three films that sit alongside the Indus at different points in its long and uneven journey. Rather than attemp [...]
The Body, DNA and Objectivity
Science has a way of reducing feelings to chemicals. Happiness becomes oxytocin. Love is dopamine. Fear is cortisol and adrenaline. The grandness [...]

Learning to Look Slowly
Seeing Colin David's drawings at O Art Space, which were taken from Ms. Ruksana David's collection, was more akin to entering an extended moment [...]
Reworking Kasb-e-Kamal Kun: The NCA Triennale 2025
Towards the end of fall, on a crisp afternoon of October 31st, the National College of Arts, Pakistan’s oldest art institution, opened itself to [...]