Category: Reviews
Questionable Communication
The lifestyles to which we are accustomed do not prepare us for the natural disintegration and changes of communication which time brings. Whether it [...]
One for the Birds
Muhammad Zeeshan’s solo exhibition ‘One for the Birds’ at Gandhara Art Space in Karachi heralded both a continuation and rupture from the previous pra [...]
Looking Back, Seeing Ahead
Arif Mahmood is a star. His work sets the stage ablaze, from breathtaking imagery of models along the runway to piercing portraits and surreal landsca [...]
The Garden of Earthly Delights
Nisha Hasan seems to hold another world in her head. At Rohtas Gallery, recently, she offered some glimpses of it to unsuspecting visitors. These visu [...]
The Presence of Absence
The walls of the gallery at the Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture are painted to resemble a container’s façade. Nothing frames the exhibit. [...]
Post-Pop: East Meets West
East does not meet West, and you will not discover anything new or exciting at the Saatchi Gallery in London. The title of the exhibition misleads: it [...]
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 [...]