Category: In Focus
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 [...]
The Intellectual Imperative of Cultural and Creative Cartography
To trace the identity of a people is to engage in an act of historical divination, a process that transcends the mere linear recording of civiliz [...]
Usaydh Agha and Contemporary Classism
Usaydh Agha recently participated in the four-person show called ‘The Geography of Memory’ at Canvas Gallery. He exhibited three large-sized canv [...]
Creative Cartography of the Twin Cities
The dualistic landscape of the twin cities, comprising the sterile, meticulously planned grid of Islamabad and the storied, palimpsestic sprawl o [...]
No One Stands at Ease Here: Ayaz Jokhio’s Three Chairs
The 1952 play The Chairs by Romanian-French playwright Eugène Ionesco depicts two elderly people filling a room with seats for guests who never c [...]
The Seed of the Word – Calligraphic Resilience of Balochistan
To view the calligraphers of Balochistan is to witness a profound paradox: a collection of voices as distinct as the province’s jagged terrain, y [...]
Decoding Calligraphy: Devotion, Expression, Fragmentation
In our living room there’s a pair of framed pressed peepal leaves upon which Quranic verses are beautifully inscribed. If you walk into any Pakis [...]
Slow Forms, Partial Understandings: Notes on the IVS Thesis Exhibition 2026
Every year, students present their work as the culmination of an extended period of research, experimentation, and reflection. The IVS Th [...]
Rashid Johnson’s A Poem For Deep Thinkers
At the Guggenheim, Rashid Johnson turns the museum’s pristine white rotunda into a meditation on selfhood. A Poem For Deep Thinkers continues Joh [...]
The Lahore Biennale Foundation and its Shaping of Pakistan’s Contemporary Art Ecology
Since its founding, the Lahore Biennale Foundation (LBF) has been one of the clearest catalysts for reconfiguring how contemporary art is produce [...]