Category: Magazine
Damishq, the City of Jasmine
Damascus, commonly known as al-Shaam, is also known as the "City of Jasmine" Arabic: (Madinatul Yasmin) It is the capital and largest city of Syria, a [...]
Iqbal Geoffrey
My first awareness of Iqbal Geoffrey was through The Odder Storey, his very own one-man-show retrospective temporary-museum, within Rasheed Aræen’s 19 [...]
Peer Pressure by Brad Troemel
We rarely get to read anything of actual substance within critical writing these days. So much so that we naively celebrate pieces written by ‘star’ c [...]
Paroxysms of Spirituality
Two young artists Komail Aijazuddin and Mohammad Ali presented their works at Canvas Gallery, Karachi in December. The two sets of work were titled se [...]
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 [...]
Huma Bhabha
Huma Bhabha was born in 1962 in Karachi, Pakistan, and currently lives and works in Poughkeepsie, New York. Most recently, she was included in the 201 [...]
Irfan Hasan
ArtNow: Why did you choose to become a miniature artist? Was it the tempting ‘bandwagon’?
Irfan Hasan: If you see the trajector [...]
The Frenzy of Karachi in 3D
Sculpture is alive and kicking and the recent show at Art Chowk titled ‘Mad in Karachi’ affirms it with aplomb. It is not the lack [...]
Omar Kasami
Anthropologist, writer and artist, Omar Kasmani is a doctoral candidate at the Freie Universität, Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cu [...]
In conversation with Khalil Chishtee
ArtNow: One of the most significant responses to your work is an overriding darkness and melancholy. Was this due to a personal angst or is [...]