Category: In Focus
Morning Conversations over Tea: LB01 through the eyes of Karachiites
Covering a Biennale, especially in an unfamiliar city, is as challenging as it probably sounds. While we tried our best to keep up with the programme [...]
Lahore: art, place and discourse
It is interesting to note that the great Mughals never got their sculptures made and have them placed in the city squares. What was sto [...]
ART DUBAI, Again
There were many surprizes in Dubai (Dubai itself is a pleasant surprize, with prevailing peace, perpetual development, new constru [...]
The Matrix of Biennales and Pakistan
Currently, there are about one hundred and fifty to two hundred Art Biennials and Triennials held around the world every two or three years, [...]
Exploring our roots: Visiting the museum
A museum is a non-profit, permanent institution in the service of society and its development, open to the public, which [...]
Is Art really beyond borders?
‘Art’ has been traversing paradigms. It is (or may seem to be) inherently beyond borders because it keeps pushing its limits and fields of inquir [...]
Art UnFairs
The popular imagination is continuously intrigued and arrested by stories of art theft. Works of fiction (and non-fiction) like the saucy fi [...]
Notes on the Artist’s Mind
It is difficult to decipher or talk about what goes on inside an artist’s mind. Perhaps one way of figuring it out or writing about it is to [...]
What Art Theory did to the Art-ist
It is but a little bit of a surprise, that after an endless search and internet scavenger hunt, I came to realize that there isn’t an exact [...]
THINKING THROUGH THEORY (AND OTHER MONUMENTAL MUSINGS)
The production and reception of contemporary art has in recent years been inextricably bound to ideas of the ‘global’ and concurrently of gl [...]