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A candid conversation with Isabel Lewis
Trained in philosophy, literature and dance, Isabel Lewis is a contemporary performance artist based in Berlin. Her brilliant and unique app [...]
Inside COMO| A conversation with Seher Tareen
Nimra Khan: What was the motivation behind establishing this space and what do you hope to achieve through it? Seher Tareen: The motivati [...]
Shahid Waheed Khan – Keeping the Venerable Art of Ceramic Alive
The art of pottery and ceramics has been a legacy of all civilizations from times immemorial. In subcontinent, pottery was practiced even before the f [...]
The Artist is awake; Bani Abidi
I was a regular passenger of the Lahore intercity Daewoo in my undergraduate days on my way back home. One day halfway through my journey, t [...]
AKRAM DOST BALOCH
Hailing from Naushki Balochistan, Akram Dost Baloch graduated from National College of Arts, Lahore, and is among the founding faculty of the Departme [...]
Karachi to Venice: In conversation with Naiza Khan
ArtNow: As this was the first year Pakistan participated in the Venice Art Biennale, what were some of your key considerations for the inaug [...]
In conversation with Zahra Khan, curator of the Pakistan Pavilion
ArtNow: The relationship between curator and artist is a unique personal and professional one. What drew you to selecting Naiza Khan to be a solo arti [...]
JAMAL SHAH AND THE VENICE BIENNALE
Ernst Fischer in his book “The Necessity of Art” writes that the function of art “is always to move the whole man, to enable the “I” to iden [...]
You transform the clay, you are also transformed; SHEHEREZADE ALAM
Over millennia pottery has been shaped to serve a variety of functions and interests that are inextricably linked to the social and cul [...]
“My dear Clay,” – In Conversation with Nabahat Lotia
When it comes to the diversity of art and mediums in the limited cosmos of the Pakistani art scene, ceramic is a language that is of [...]