Category: In Focus
Dotting the i’s and crossing the t’s
Artists, by popular definition, are loose cannons, black sheep, oddly shaped parts incompatible with the snug geometry of society. An artist is the em [...]
The Individual Artist: Carving-Out Oneself
A priori, if a manis really interested in himselfhe must formulate his answer to the questionam I a vessela funnela fountainor [...]
After a Revolution: Authenticity and Art in Pakistan
Like many deeply conservative entities, Pakistan these days is full of talk of revolution. The immediate circumstance is the (alleged) exposure of the [...]
After a Revolution: Authenticity and Art in Pakistan
Like many deeply conservative entities, Pakistan these days is full of talk of revolution. The immediate circumstance is the (alleged) expos [...]
On the Political Potential of Art
The intersection of art and political change is a contested territory. A simplified historical trajectory of art tells us that it became occ [...]
Contemporaries in the Corridors: Some Preliminary Thoughts…
Held across the Asia Society, the Grey Art Gallery and the Queens Museum in New York in 1996 the landmark exhibition ‘Contemporary Art in Asia:&nb [...]
NOTES ON CURATING: THE CURATOR AS MEDIATOR
The meaning of the word ‘curator’ – and thus the role assigned to the individual – has undergone massive shifts in understanding over the last several [...]
Copy It Right
Instead of understanding what copyrights are, let’s look at it from a different perspective: It comes with no surprise that it is illegal to replicat [...]
The Curious Cases of Copyrighting in Arts
Art is interesting to us because it makes us think about ordinary things differently or deeply. Also, and quite often, art creates controver [...]
There is no End | In conversation with Rashid Rana on #LahoreBiennale01
The greatest challenge in art today is not novelty rather contextualizing of expression. Defying the two fold binary present in the nature vs. culture [...]