Category: Reviews
The Cloth Does Not Make the Monk
In Autumn 2014, London’s exhibition scene has been invaded by established, mature German artists. Sigmar Polke at Tate Modern, Anselm Kiefer at the Ro [...]
Sobia Ahmed: Who is Afraid of Green
Sobia Ahmed showcased a powerful collection of works at Khaas Gallery in November. Two themes were evident through her work, that of environmentalism [...]
Salman Toor: Around the Bourgeois
Lower, middle and upper: Pakistan’s distinct and jarring class divides. Living in this striated society, most individuals within these cultural tiers [...]
Grains of Sand: A Spiritual Journey
'Grains of Sand' is a voguish exhibition that recently opened at the Satrang Gallery in Islamabad. Showcasing the work of six essential artists, Moham [...]
A Pilgrimage with Porcelain
Conversing with Sheherezade Alam, one gets a sense that like other studio ceramists in the country, there is a fair bit of struggle involved in making [...]
Present Reinventions
Paul Klee’s words, “one eye sees, the other feels”, come to mind when one enters Grosvenor Gallery in the heart of London where the three painters Irf [...]
Adeel-uz-Zafar: Stranger Than Fiction
Over the last century, the mass media has popularized and propagated fictional icons from films, television shows, advertisements, cartoons and comic- [...]
Different Chapters
The Story Must Go On' exhibited from the 23rd to the 31st of October at Koel Gallery and featured three contemporary artists all hailing from the same [...]
Along With Anwar
Anwar Saeed, a well-known painter of Pakistan, has been part of the faculty of the National College of Arts, Lahore, where he taught generations of yo [...]
Book Review: Studio – Documents of Contemporary Art
Studio is another addition to the ongoing series of books called Documents of Contemporary Art. Edited by Jens Hoffman, it provides a thorough overvie [...]