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Jamil Naqsh: Art is a Way of Life
For Jamil Naqsh painting is a way of life. He is a man who has lived – and continues to live his life for art. Painting to please himself; he is a mas [...]
Studio Visit: Amin Rehman – A lucid expositor and a vivid writer
The great philosopher Socrates in 399 B.C. said that “an unexamined life is not worth living” prior to drinking a bowl of Hemlock poison by order of t [...]
The Man Who Grew His Own Wing: Anwar Saeed
Sehr Jalil: Was observation the first alphabet of your ‘image-making’ or did imagination play a bigger role even in the beginning? Anwar Saeed: It i [...]
The Language of Building Bridges
One of the rife discourses on art focalize on the question of art activism – that is, on the ability of art to operate as a terrain and medium for any [...]
Naiza Khan: Between Reasonings And Residencies
Residency is rather a strange word – presumably it takes origin from residence... which means that it does imply that “this is a place to reside ”but [...]
The Possibilities of a Revelatory Idyll
I am just a few minutes into an interview with acclaimed artist and founder of The Murree Museum Artist's Residency, Saba Khan and my compo [...]
Studio Visit: Rashid Arshed – The Gentle Giant of Art
Rashid Arshed lives in Montclair, California - a quiet suburb of Los Angeles. From a studio in his garage, he paints using mostly oil and acrylic on c [...]
Unravelling the Conundrum of Language
The nod of deference. The soft, submissive acceptance. A profusion of polite thank yous. As we settle down to start the interview and I congratulate M [...]
Moeen Faruqi
As part of ‘Drawing Documents’ a four part series examining the multifaceted qualities in drawing, Moeen Faruqi’s exhibition ‘Other Selves’ was the se [...]
Questioning Hierarchies and Constructed Realms
When I sit down to describe Masooma's works, the list reads like a flippant dismissal and in some cases even a bohemian protest of what is conventiona [...]