Category: Reviews

Jamil Baloch – Beyond
There is a sacred moment when a viewer first engages with an artwork, a fleeting second before realizing context or history, when the imagery in front [...]

Book Review: Global Activism (Art and Conflict in the 21st Century)
In Slavoj Zizek's words, "They tell you we are dreamers. The true dreamers are those who think things can go on indefinitely the way they are. We are [...]

#Hashtag
Our world today is very visibly obsessed with the Avant-garde, the original, the out-of-the-box. While invention was fueled by necessity in the 20th c [...]

Till the Last Look
Time has no choice but to venture forward. It takes its steps and moves above and beyond all that was before him. It heals, it evolves, and reflects u [...]

A Face-to-Face With Silence
Lahore Biennial Foundation’s resident artist Honi Ryan conducted a Silent Dinner party at Gawalmandi, Lahore on December 5, 2016 as part of her ongoin [...]

Ayesha Zulfiqar: ‘Traces of the Familiar’
What begins as a playful activity and starts behaving like serious work reflects a journey in time- but in no time at all. It was not in the distant p [...]

A Response; In Solitude
‘Live art and performative gestures by selected young artists from different cities of Pakistan’.
It is all of Lahore art and artisan growing out of [...]

Mapping Identity
Maps not only define the topographic composition of a land, they accompany with them, abstract traits as well. Socially, culturally, and politically d [...]

Double, double toil and trouble
All artists are alike. They dream of doing something that's more social, more collaborative, more real than art. - Dan Graham
Creative magic is ignit [...]

Colouring Within The Lines
The recent show "Colouring Within The Lines" at Taseer Art Gallery brought together two emerging miniature artists from the National College of Arts, [...]