Category: Reviews
I Washed the Dust of the Eyes with Blood
Humanity is at war. Narrowing it down, it is the age where Muslims (as well as those giving themselves this title) are regularly in the news as attack [...]
Sailing Through the Looking Glass
“No matter how much time passes, no matter what takes place in the interim, there are some things we can never assign to oblivion, memories we can nev [...]
Book Review | Modern Art in Pakistan: History, Tradition, Place
With some of Pakistan biggest cultural events just around the corner (the literary fests whose canopies are soon to go up in the country major cities) [...]
Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red
Every year on the 11th of November at 11 o’clock, every single person in the United Kingdom stops whatever they are doing to remember the members of t [...]
A Persistence of Vision
Moeen Faruqi’s transcendent canvases touch upon the human experience, revolving around slumber, companionship, solitude and death. A self-proclaimed v [...]
A History of Art in a Few Words
The Department of Fine Arts, established by Anna Molka Ahmed in 1940 at the University of the Punjab, has been producing artists and designers of high [...]
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Out of Her Shell, In Her [skin]
Samina Mansuri constructs a startlingly tactile experience with the body of work on display in ‘Shell [skin]’. The artist, based in Canada, returned t [...]
Studio Visit: Sanat Residency
Located near Karachi’s most sought after attraction – Sea View – the residency takes place in an airy apartment with natural sunlight filtering in thr [...]
Book Review: B is for Bauhaus
I suppose the most convenient thing about encyclopaedias, anthologies, dictionaries, or any categorised depository of knowledge is that they don’t req [...]
Filling Greys: Ayaz Jokhio
It is often customary to come across images from an upcoming exhibition online before the opening of the show. Such was the case with Ayaz Jokhio’s wo [...]