Category: Reviews

Arjumand Painting Award 2015
17th May 2015 saw the inauguration of a new event on the Pakistani art calendar, the Arjumand Painting Award. In a country all but devoid of governmen [...]

And Nothing But The Truth
Honesty, freedom, fearlessness: such words are gospel for an artist in an age where our local and global sociopolitics influence these notions. It is [...]

Making the Meaning of Art
Installation art is difficult to describe. It is created at a specific space and is constructed incorporating materials or physical features of a site [...]

The Science of Taking a Walk
The Science of Taking a Walk: Navigating / Re-,navigating - Forming Trajectories' opened Thursday 21st May at Gandhara-Art Space. The show, curated by [...]

Benumbed by Sajid Khan
Two little shalwar kameez-clad children run hand-in-hand atop the green, lush mountains that stretch afar. The sky is blue and covered with a blanket [...]

My Kolachi
The Exhibitions Programme at Asia House is dedicated to engaging in a dialogue with artists who take as their starting point a discourse on their tran [...]

Built-In
Start opening the folds of this world, count the sides, measure the edges, make patterns within patterns...look through the line between earth and the [...]

Painting: Documents of Contemporary Art
Painting (word and act) has probably undergone more attempts at reinvention than any other means of visual expression. In many ways it seems that when [...]

We Are All Mad Here: Performance Art Reaches Public Space.
A great buzz and energy throbbed in the National Gallery in the first week of May, with the opening of 'We Are All Mad Here'. Large projection screens [...]

The Venice Biennale 2015: Global in Scale
With the mix of the different curatorial voices of the various pavilions along with the curatorial intervention of the curator for the international e [...]