Category: Reviews
The Otherness
Themes of migration, displacement and identity have been informing contemporary art since some time now. Currently, some of the best works in this reg [...]
Collector’s Weekend
Art enthusiasts in the capital city have been starved for art and culture activities for a while now with the shutting down of most of its galleries. [...]
Sanat’s very own ‘Department Store’
A department store is one of the most mundane sights in today’s consumerist world. It is a huge organized space, categorised by type and sells numerou [...]
Back to Nature
Henry Beecher once said, “Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.” But what happens when the artist [...]
Hang-ups: Essays on Painting (Mostly)
A historian’s writing on art can be doubly enlightening as it can draw a larger, more ambitious loop of historical context around the relatively small [...]
Fragmented Reality
In recent decades, terror and violence have become an integral and inseparable part of Pakistan. The constant occurrence of extremist and fanatic acts [...]
Social Objects
While most of us tend to accept life the way it is, it is the artists, writers and thinkers among us who reject the status quo, question soc [...]
Not even, from a distance…
“But I don’t want to go among mad people," Alice remarked.
"Oh, you can’t help that," said the Cat: "we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re [...]
Art Kingdom
Relationships, memories, moral values, royalty, society and finally, life; the philosophies knitted behind the works of six artists at Studio Seven in [...]
Hide and Seek
Artists have loved and devoured the idea of creating art in layered forms since Modern Art began to develop its roots in the western world. Arguably, [...]