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A Celebration of Contemporary Islamic-Inspired Art: Reviewing the 2024 Jameel Prize
A Celebration of Contemporary Islamic-Inspired Art: Reviewing the 2024 Jameel PrizeThe Jameel Prize, established in 2009 in collaboration wit [...]
Faceless Histories: Khadim Ali’s Retrospective and the Politics of Memory
بے صورت / Faceless – The title of this exhibition taken from a verse of Ghalib - koi surat nazar nahin aati - is an interesting play on words. Wh [...]
Saints of the Streets
Perhaps the most misunderstood creature on this planet could be the Dog. Not justindividually but as a whole species. While they roam the streets [...]
Rind – In a League of His Own
Veiled Truth opened at Art Citi Gallery Karachi wasThe visual embodiment of poetry slathered across his canvases, A.S. Rind is one of the few Pa [...]
Diaspora, Pop Culture, and Digital Memory – Rushda Aarish’s Visual Remix
Not since the dawn of the camera has something come along to change the fabric of art-making's possibilities on such a grand scale as digital art [...]
Layers of Longing: A South Asian Reading of ‘Dreamers’
In the jurisdiction of contemporary painting, where the tension between restraint and excess forms an important creative threshold, the exhibitio [...]
Anwar Jalal Shemza: An Alternate History of Modernism
For many years, art history classrooms have heralded the unveiling of Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon as a defining moment for modern art. Th [...]
Attar’s Allegory
“The ocean can be yours; why should you stop Beguiled by dreams of evanescent dew? The secrets of the sun are yours, but you&nb [...]
Echoes of the infinite: Art at the Intersection of Senses and Eternity
Echoes of the Infinite delves into art's timeless ability to bridge sensory experiences with eternal truths.In a city brimming with realistic art [...]
Risham Syed Weaving History, Memory and Resistance
Fabric has been used as a medium of storytelling ever since the history of art began, and this isn’t surprising considering the strong cultural memor [...]