Category: In Focus

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The Exhibitionary Complex, [revisited]

The Exhibitionary Complex, [revisited]

In all their spectacular glory, art fairs and biennials are often cited interchangeably as the exemplary exhibitionary sites of international contempo [...]
Durriya

Durriya

Curious to discover if there was a tradition of healing the human spirit in our society, I kept returning to the Sufis of our land.  The many mazaars [...]
The Role of the Artis

The Role of the Artis

The Role of the Artist in Times of Terror As terror and violence have become a growing reality of daily life across the globe, people have learned to [...]
Globalism in the Wake of Conceptual Art

Globalism in the Wake of Conceptual Art

The art history and art theory of the 20th century was dominated by a methodology that equates the pictorial with the linguistic. In the most extreme [...]
Peeling the Proverbial Onion

Peeling the Proverbial Onion

To address the relationship between art and language one must revisit the circular history of modern avant-gardism of 1960s Britain - the birth of con [...]
Hamra Abbas

Hamra Abbas

  “As an artist I feel a sense of responsibility,” says Hamra Abbas and she goes on to explain that she believes artists carry a burden to vie [...]

The Kitsch Factor

Defying easy categorization kitsch, prized or loathed, entertained or rejected, reflects mass-cultural values in a given era while simultaneously expo [...]
Decorated Trucks of Pakistan

Decorated Trucks of Pakistan

Meaning is always in process, what has been called “a momentary stop in a continuing flow of interpretations of interpretations”. This paper pauses at [...]

Art, Globalisation and Politics

With the globalisation of the art world, national differences among artists have grown increasingly marginal. There is little to distinguish Pakistani [...]
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