Category: In Focus
Questions of Scale
With artworks getting bigger and new, huge spaces for the showing of works becoming more and more common, it is pretty easy to say that as far as tren [...]
Does Scale Matter?
Let's talk about scale. One hundred and seventy-five pounds of candy in Untitled (Portrait of Ross in L.A.) by Félix González-Torres. A seventy-five f [...]
Collecting, Destroying,Accelerating
Collecting, Destroying, Accelerating
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In a famous early work, the Chinese artist and dissident Ai Weiwei had himself photographed dropping a Han [...]
On the Need for a Public Art Collection
A 2013 visit to the National Museum of Pakistan in Karachi revealed an uncomfortable sight. At the central foyer of the Museum was an exhibi [...]
Is It Art?
“For, while the authority of the doctor or plumber is never questioned, everyone deems himself a good judge and an adequate arbiter of what a work of [...]
Believing is Seeing
“Photography cannot record abstract ideas.” – Encyclopaedia Britannica
The use of a photograph determines its meaning. A news photograph with a capti [...]
Shafqat, Shama, Shahzad and Brandon
On 4th August, 2015, at 4:30 am, Shafqat Hussain was quietly led to the gallows after four last minute reprieves were each successively cancelled, des [...]
Broken Integrity – Khat-e Mahi, Khat-e Paikan, and Khat-e Munfarid: Design Experiments in Non-cursive Fonts for Urdu, Persian and Arabic Scripts
history of Nastaliq and its inventor, the fourteenth century calligrapher Mir Ali Tabrizi, I realized how, despite the long tradition of abstraction i [...]
Politics of Language, Colonisation, and Visuality
THE COMMAND OF LANGUAGE AND THE LANGUAGE OF COMMAND
Johannes Fabian, in Language and Colonial Power, begins by telling us a story about Catherine the [...]
Art and Text: A Cursory Overview
In contrast to the Enlightenment, during which ideas were coalescing and crystallizing into relative clarity fuelled in part by humanist self-belief a [...]