Category: Reviews
Conversations Through Print
Under co-curators Rabeya Jalil and Ben Rak, the Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture Print Department has taken part in Fantasy Asia, an intern [...]
Drawing From Within
Although I refer to “drawing” here in its artistic sense, as in the act or product of the act of making marks on a surface – the word “draw” also mean [...]
Resolving the Two Rights
According to many sociological and philosophical theories, gender differences are socially constructed. Society and culture create gender roles accord [...]
Book Review – Man Ray: Self-Portrait
As a student perfunctorily leafing through art history, I would always find myself pausing over the name Man Ray – pausing and pronouncing it to mysel [...]
Still Painting
Inaam Zafar's work consists of paintings of stills from a lesser-known and under-rated film from over three decades ago. But to say that the artist’s [...]
Unraveling the Tamasha
Most of us enjoy art because of the engaging personality present in the work; as viewers we love understanding different journeys reflected and it is [...]
Henri Matisse: Cut-Outs at the Tate Modern
“From the moment I held the box of colours in my hands”, Henri Matisse said of his discovery of painting, “I knew this was my life. I threw myself int [...]
The Constructed Abstraction of Imagery
Faiza Butt’s show at Canvas Gallery titled ‘The Image of an Image’ is a cultural documentation on society, each piece, a visual representation of diff [...]
Standing Collection
It is difficult to articulate specific parameters for Pakistani culture; internationally however, our country has been presented as a formulated, homo [...]