Category: Reviews
Book Review – Rasheed Araeen: To the West With Love
The book The Triumph of Icarus is a compilation of essays based on the “Life and Arts of Rasheed Araeen.” Araeen is a renowned London-based artist, or [...]
Miniature Paintings
Miniature painting is one of the few vehicles of Indo-Pak art forms that makes it into the western imagination. As culturally misapplied as it is, the [...]
When I Wake Up In The Morning
A recent exhibition of two well established artists, Nurayah Sheikh and Rabeya Jalil, drew upon original reserves of personal struggles, discoveries a [...]
Displacement Anxieties
Too often we underestimate the power of place in our lives. The sense of belonging it evokes at times and alienation at others. The concept of displac [...]
Reverberating Sounds Echo Through the Desert
Identity has an impact on politics, economy, culture and the arts. The Sindh art show at Koel Gallery piqued this experience for many. It refreshed th [...]
Basir Mahmood: Three Works
Basir Mahmood, a graduate of the Beaconhouse National University, is the most recent graduate of a slew of now internationally-known Pakistani artists [...]
Other Spaces
In darkened rooms at Taseer Art Gallery, Uzair Amjad, Zaineb Siddique and Ahmed Faizan Naveed held a show titled ‘Other Spaces’. Although the work lis [...]
Book Review — Right to the City: Travel Guide to Karachi
In 1968, French philosopher Henri Lefebvre published Le Droit à la Ville (The Right to the City), in which he argued that it is the right of citizens [...]
TalhaRathore’s recent collection at Chawkandi Gallery
Within the scope of traditional commissioned miniatures, much of the paintings shared a poignant dialogue or narration with the viewers. The eclipse o [...]
Mehmood Hassan Rumi: A Retrospective
Many eyes meet yours, evade yours, seek out distance and yet, are unquestionably aware of yours as you walk into Mehmood Hassan Rumi’s retrospective a [...]