Category: In Focus
Double Entendre
For centuries, visual artists (painters, printmakers, sculptors, draughtsmen, architects) have been known to hold a parallel practice, alongside their [...]
The Cloak of Culture
In this age information is accessible with just a few clicks, experiencing virtual 3-dimensional walks through corridors of art spaces while enjoying [...]
Art Seminars and Conferences
A question I am a little too frequently asked by my students is ‘Does art really have to be talked about?’. I co-teach a course at the National Colleg [...]
The Return of the Diaspora: Some Scattered Remarks
“Diasporist art is contradictory at its heart, being both internationalist and particularist. It can be inconsistent, which is a major blasphemy again [...]
Lights, Camera, Smile!
it is a familiar scene. An exhibition is opening. Another in the turnover of exhibition openings, and openings, and openings. Friends, patrons, and co [...]
Parde Mein Rehne Do, Parda Na Uthao: Opacity and The Refusal To Represent In Contemporary Artworks In Karachi
opacity for everyone.”
Edouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation
“The veil was worn because tradition demanded a rigid separation of the sexes, but also [...]
New Voices in Art
[N.B. The following essay contains some assumptions, and many generalizations; it is based on my experiences and perceptions as a member of the Pakist [...]
Praise, Price and Prizes
Turner Prize 2013 Winner: Laure Prouvost. Installation view of Farfromwords: car mirrors eat raspberries when swimming through the sun, to swallow swe [...]
On Awards and Prizes in Art
In 1993 during a trip to Sudan, Kevin Carter, a South African photojournalist, photographed a starving toddler, with a vulture in the background. This [...]
Global Villagers: Three Comments on a Certain Invisibility
Is it possible to extricate contemporary art from the contemporary city?
I do not mean, in asking this question, to point out simply that the history [...]