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Anwar Maqsood: The Man of Multiple Views
During the condolence meeting for BM in Karachi, every speaker took the opportunity to talk in detail about his and deceased painter’s close and intim [...]
Lighting the Fire: Interview with Naeem Pasha
Naeem Pasha is a living treasure in the Pakistani art world; a Renaissance man who has successfully worked in the fields of architecture, art and poet [...]
Studio Visit: An Hour with Wahab Jaffer
“These were taken out from my grandson’s room; they were too old apparently.” Carefully placing mini ceiling-fan blades up onto his book shelf, Wahab [...]
Landscapes of Ethereal Light
Zarmina Bakhtiar is warm and gregarious, with a personable, open demeanour. We first meet in a sunny drawing room, in which some wonderful paintings b [...]
Studio Visit: Nadia Khawaja
In 1932 sculptor Janet De Coux apprenticed with James Earle Fraser. In a letter from Fraser to his former assistant, he comments on her studio “Seeing [...]
Beautiful and Grotesque: In Conversation with Irfan Hasan
Haajra Haider Karrar: When did you first realize that you want to pursue art? Tell me about the journey which led you to the National College of Arts? [...]
In Conversation With Afshar Malik
Afshar Malik (b. 1955, Bahawalpur) has had a long and illustrious career in the arts. He has been teaching at the National College of Arts, Lahore sin [...]
Interview with Shireen Kamran
Aziz Sohail: Tell me a bit about your path to becoming an artistShireen Kamran: I started school late, when I was 40, once I moved to Montreal abo [...]
Amin Rehman: A Subversive Scribe
‘He had been taught that language was essentially inadequate, that it could never speak what was there, that it only spoke itself…What had happened to [...]
Studio Visit: Pietro Ruffo
In the heart of San Lorenzo’s neighbourhood in Rome, a pasta factory was transformed into a “creativity building” in the early 80s when some artists d [...]