Category: Reviews
Abstracting Parables-A Work Of Translation at The Stedelijk Museum By Shireen Ikramullah Khan
‘Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift that speaks.’— Simonides of CeosAn audience can often misconstrue abstract [...]
Through the Looking Glass
Abid Khalil Ansari’s portraiture and figurative paintings have an emotive depth that is sincere and compassionate. His studio practice, over the year [...]
Points of Origin; Points of Departure: Alyssa Sakina Mumtaz’s ‘The Center is Everywhere’ at Koel Gallery
To radiate in several directions, to de-mystify the sacred, and to engage portals of thought in tangible form, is directly related to the accuracy an [...]
Love’s Assassin Wore Sports Socks
The Sacred and Beyond.The exhibition titled Sacred and Beyond is one of the rare instances of a show in which each artist says what she means and [...]
The Body Keeps the Score: Ruby Chishti at Canvas Gallery
Fragments; stitched and glued across the borders of an equally fragmented armature; dissipating, surreal and rendered as artifacts of absence and p [...]
Shaikh Danial: An Art Director from Pakistan Stands Among Top NFT Artists Globally
According to Business Insider which is a renowned American news website “The market for non-fungible tokens surged to $41 billion in 2021, according [...]
Dual Genesis
Marjan and Maryam Baniasadi, respectively, have distinct voices amongst the diasporic linkages that define their cultural positions—a mélange of affi [...]
Lumieres – Expressing the Interplay of Light and Identity
The French embassy in Islamabad added the much needed buzz to the art scene after a hiatus caused due to the pandemic with ‘Lumieres’ -a group show o [...]
Being and becoming at Tanzara Art Gallery
The solo presentation titled “Being and Becoming” by Zaam Arif is being held at Tanzara Art Gallery in Islamabad. The exhibition features a series of [...]