Category: Reviews

REALISTIC ARTISTRY – S M FAWAD
Realistic paintings of S.M Fawad seem to be a sentimental testimony of not only our historic subcontinental past through Colonial Era Archit [...]

CEAD and Karachi University thesis comes to Art Kaam & ArtOne 62
Art Kaam and Art One 62 have been busy in the month of December to bring grad shows in the galleries. In the mid of the month on December 21st, 2 [...]

Art of the future: NCA Thesis 2019
Something wonderful is happening in the heart of Lahore. The NCA undergraduate thesis of 2019 is up for display - and there's an e [...]

Adha Musalman: a dialectical discourse by Shiblee Munir
“Adha Musalman” an art exhibition by the eminent Pakistani artist Shiblee Munir opens up a dialectical discourse through significa [...]

Book Review | The Life of Nahid Raza
Both Nahid Raza and Marjorie Husain have been part of Pakistani art for many years. These two contributed in several ways to support, promot [...]

Dolls Don’t Lie
For years unravelling humanity has been and still remains to be complex and utterly impossible to explain by the means of one field. The dynamics of p [...]

Longing for Mecca
The Tropenmuseum in Amsterdam, a prior colonial museum and one of the major ethnographic museums of the Netherlands, has opened an expositio [...]

Exit Strategy at IAF 2019: A Nest of Non-Conformity
Supremely committed to multi-disciplinary practices and an alternative pedagogy that offers a wide scope of thinking, ma [...]

Drawing Room Diamonds
Drawing Room Diamonds was a satirical appraisal of contemporary art in Pakistan; a project by Emaan Mahmud, conducted through her pseudonym [...]

Alternative Imaginary
A show titled ‘Alternative Imaginary’ by Affan Baghpatee took place at Koel Gallery in Karachi on the 8th of October, 2019. He graduated with a BFA fr [...]