Category: Reviews

BOOK REVIEW| Monkey’s Right to Paint And the Post-Duchamp Crisis
Monkey’s Right to PaintAnd the Post-Duchamp CrisisBy Bedri BaykamIllustrated. 319 pp. Literatür. 1994
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Silence in Rebellion
Having grown up witnessing subtleties of gendered violence and dealing with prohibitions of the female sex in certain facets of society, Pakistan [...]

As the Light Turns
Pakistani based artist and writer Omer Wasim explores the queer qualities of urban spaces and studies the interactive relationship between those space [...]

War and Social Criticism
It is not often that art audiences in Pakistan get to experience works that offer a glimpse into history, into a different era and the motivations tha [...]

Existential Predicament
John Russell, in his book The Meaning of Modern Art: History as Nightmare, Vol. 3, says, “When art is made new, we are made new with it. We [...]

Art for Education: Contemporary Artists of Pakistan at Museo Diocesano Carlo Maria Martini
A valuable collaboration between one of Asia’s largest non-for-profit educational organizations and a leading Italian art museum brings cont [...]

Of Full Presence
Body becoming was the latest exhibition of in a series of conversations, workshops, and performances conducted by House Ltd. Curated by Natasha Jozi a [...]
No Filter
Curated by Pomme Amina Gauhar, the show “No Filter” opened on November 15th at the Alliance Francaise, Karachi. The multidisciplinary show featuring 2 [...]

A.S. Rind
Concept and symbolism have always been two highly essential factors of art, rather two perspectives; sometimes they were presented independently while [...]

Light and Shade – a mini watercolor biennale at Art Citi
The history of watercolor paintings dates back to the paintings of Paleolithic Europe when prehistoric humans used to paint cave walls with [...]