Category: Reviews

Unfinished Conversations with Lahore
Nashmia Haroon’s solo exhibition ‘Unfinished Conversations with Lahore’ at Rohtas 2 showcased works in the genre of photojournalism. Documenting trans [...]

Tearing Apart the Envelope
The question of identity is nothing new –all of us have asked this question in one form or another, at one time or another. The more ambitious am [...]

Retrospective: Kinetic Painting- Carolee Schneemann at MoMA PS1
“Covered in paint, grease, chalk, rope, plastic, I establish my body as visual territory. Not only am I an image maker, but I explore the image values [...]

Sight Specific – Mohammad Ali Talpur in London
In the past weeks art lovers have been hearing about quite a few Pakistan-related cultural events in London. After the ‘Focus on Pakistan’ p [...]

BOOK REVIEW: THREE BIG B’S
Normally a peaceful specie, artists, of and on argue, quarrel and question about the position of a person who had first created an image, id [...]

Five Selfish Dreamers in London
Five are the artists selected by curator Zahra Khan for You Selfish Dreamer, the group exhibition presented in the new space of the Italian [...]

London Calling, of Art Fairs and Pakistani Art
London has been a hub for both art and culture for many years, and the increased globalisation of the art world has amongst other benefits, led to the [...]

ANATOMY OF AN INCLUSIVE EXPERIENCE
Art materializes what the thinkers and visionaries theorize. It consolidates emotions, thoughts, and experiences to encapsulate moments archiving past [...]

Home 1947
Home 1947 investigated the concept of home and a sense of self within the larger narrative of the partition of the Subcontinent. Conceptualized by Sha [...]

Book Review: “Show Me a Story! Why Picture Books Matter: Conversations with 21 of the World’s Most Celebrated Illustrators”
They say that a picture is worth a thousand words. A child would beg to differ. So would a grown-up – secretly, at least. Which one of us does not l [...]