Category: In Focus
Parallel Trends
The new millennium is a privileged vantage point from which to consider the major achievements of the last century. The idea of South East A [...]
Between the Art & the City LB02: a creative relationship
Ghulam Abbas’s acclaimed short story Over Coat is a character sketch of an anonymous protagonist who goes for a walk on the Mall R [...]
Biennale Fervor and Fever
New local models and place-based structures have emerged as a result of four major Biennales in Pakistan; Karachi Biennale (KB17) in 2017, L [...]
Biennials of the Periphery
Despite the turbulent history of the country and an image of terror and violence, various institutions in Pakistan attempt to portray a soft [...]
Best of the best | Profiles
With this exciting theme of the first issue of the year 2020 “Best of the best”, Art Now has chosen artists featured from Jan 2018 [...]
Best of the best | Interviews
With this exciting theme of the first issue of the year 2020 “Best of the best”, Art Now has chosen artists featured from Jan 2018 [...]
Home is Anywhere and Nowhere!
This essay does not attempt to explore or resolve terms such as assimilation, diaspora, back home, homeland, migration, and transnationalism [...]
Transplanted Artists and Cities of Adaptation Berlin, its Global Spectrum of International Art and Artists and the Question of Identity
For many decades and even centuries, artists have crossed borders to increase cross-cultural understanding and exposure to the arts. The wor [...]
Without Permission
In Saadat Hasan Manto’s short story, ‘Beghair Ijaazat’ (Without Permission), the protagonist finds himself in a series of misplaced location [...]
The Creation of the Archive: KB as phenomenon
ZS: This is a strange position to be in – and a strangely difficult one to occupy: to talk about the Karachi Biennale, speaking at once from a positio [...]