Category: Reviews

I (Heart) New York
Frank Sinatra and his vagabond shoes were longing to stray, right through the very heart of it. Now I know why. Granted a four-day stint in New York i [...]

Shab-O-Roz
Fahim Rao's recent works at Koel allows for the tangible to convulse into the insatiable. He reminisces anecdotes of childhood naiveté. His installati [...]

Prescriptions
Despite our daily experience of reading in the digital realm, people continue to value the physical book: it’s tactile nature gives for a peculiarly i [...]

Look at the City from Here: Through the Rear View Mirror or Looking Glass
‘Look at the city from here: through the rear view mirror or looking glass’ is the title of Risham Syed’s current solo show at Gandhara Art-Space in K [...]

Works and Words of Sadequain
Like every human being, artists are also endowed with the gift of speech, so no matter if they employ the universal vocabulary of images, they are for [...]

Vasl’s 8th Taaza Tareen Residency: ‘To let’
A one day exhibition by Vasl’s 8th Taaza Tareen artists. An exhibition is incomplete without there being some form of viewershi [...]

Love in the times of Mufti Naeem
'Love in the times of Mufti Naeem' is Shaan Taseer’s inaugural exhibition in Canada held at the Promenade Gallery in Toronto from May 14-30, [...]

Children of a Redder Earth
It has become relatively rare these days to confront more than a dozen works of art by a single artist at a show, even if it is a solo show. Artists h [...]

A Line of Thought- A review of New Urban Constructions
As resilient as Karachi may seem to many, it is a city that is under constant threat. This has given rise to many security concerns and has [...]

The Blood of Women-Traces of Red on White Cloth
Sometimes, the exhibits, those creative projects that sneak into reality by messing with the daily grind, arise from chance encounters, sometimes even [...]