Category: Reviews
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 [...]
Running the Printmaking Marathon
Semblance of Order at Koel Gallery
Fantasy Asia at IVS Gallery
Sydney-Lahore at the Saeed Akhtar Studio
Some exciting news for artists in Pakistan [...]
In Print: Sydney to Lahore
"Do you know what a cicada is? Do you have them here? Ok”... he says in response to my blank face, pointing towards his shirt with an insect form logo [...]
Book Review: What Art Is
“I am not really an art historian, so I had no interest in Warhol’s influences when he had the idea of making those cartons – if, indeed, he had any i [...]
Kamal Hyat: Honest Art
Kamal Hyat is back after a two-year absence from the Islamabad exhibition circuit with a self-titled show at Nomad Gallery.The first impression of [...]