Category: Magazine
A Conversation with Wardha Shabbir
Wardha Shabbir is a Lahore-based miniature artist who recently undertook an Artist in Residence programme at FLACC, Belgium, where she created interac [...]
Shahid Sajjad: The Non-conformist Guru – The Freethinking Maestro – The Passionate Soul
Shahid Sajjad: a man, an institution, beyond his Zeitgeist. He created his own language, made his own tools, defined his own ways of living and led a [...]
No Exit from Pakistan
In May 2013, The Roof Garden Commission: Imran Qureshi, opened on The Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New Y [...]
The Constructed Abstraction of Imagery
Faiza Butt’s show at Canvas Gallery titled ‘The Image of an Image’ is a cultural documentation on society, each piece, a visual representation of diff [...]
It Would Rain Anyway: A Case for the Mythic
In plain usage, ‘myth’ used to refer to a mistaken belief held as fact, especially the kind of belief that purports to explain something present, or e [...]
Faiza Butt: “We can only live because we imagine that we are infinite.”
Faiza Butt is one of Pakistan’s most dynamic artists. Charismatic, passionate, and intelligent, she successfully transfers those qualities into her ar [...]
Studio Visit: Ali Azmat
Located in the barren Bridge Colony near the military cantonment of Lahore is an oasis of culture in the form of Azmat’s home. One enters and feels th [...]
Modern Mythologies: The Modern Metropolises
The larger cities of Pakistan are turning into modern metropolises that are hard to handle for those who have inhabited the old cities since a few dec [...]