Category: In Focus
Sheherezade Alam
Narrator of tales in clay During the first year of our art school education, students were introduced to the art galleries that existed in the ci [...]
Zenana Mardana
The art of creating experiences that bring meaning, culture and people together has been a passion for Pomme Amina Afzal. Over the last 10 years, her [...]
Transformative art for the proletariat
Rameesha Azeem’s interdisciplinary and site-specific curatorial project called “The Factory” invited 22 artists to explore and create installations i [...]
Imran Mir: Alchemist of Line
From the archivesThere is absolutely nothing wrong with enjoying art adherent exclusively to particular mediums, schools, genres or techniques, c [...]
UBERMENSCH – A conversation between Rashid Rana and Rohma Khan.
“Superman” as we know today follows the conceptual premise conceived by Friedrich Nietzsche in his philosophical centerpiece, Thus Spake Zarathustra, [...]
Conversations about Public Art: An homage to complex form
A few weeks ago I was asked to write about public art, possibly because of my affiliation with the Tentative Collective and our intermittent art exper [...]
Encounters with the Miniature in Pakistan: A Train of Thought
It was 2009 when I was first introduced to the Neo-Miniature in Pakistan. I was a first year student at Brandeis University, and enrolled in Introduct [...]
Upon healing: Collaboration with Qinza Najm
"I was so traumatized last year. You have no idea." Qinza Najm said as we were sitting outdoors at a busy restaurant in Miami Beach with our [...]
The Residency; as Retreat, Relational and Relief
The cropping up of artist residencies in past two or so decades, seems almost be a global phenomenon. A cursory visit to any website that lists calls [...]
Artists’ Residencies and the creative’s world
It’s not that you can’t hear the birds chirping every day. You just have to wake up really early to catch the rhythm of nature, before your [...]