Category: Reviews
The Venice Biennale
Almost every two years since 1895, Venice is invaded by the global community of art-lovers that flock, every time more copious, to the unmissable appo [...]
Seven Deadly Sins
The root word for the number seven in Hebrew means ‘to be full’ or ‘to be complete’. It is a number of completion and perfection+. Seven Deadly Sins, [...]
Becoming Animal
Becoming Animal was the title of the exhibition at Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art held in 2005 but the catalogue, as is the purpose of a cat [...]
But is it Site Specific Art?
There is always room to push ideas off their limits in art. While most artists and art followers happily remain in the realm of conventional art makin [...]
Modern Life
The name of the group show by Julius John, Ali Asad Naqvi, Saeeda Nawaz, Sara Khan and Madiha Sikander, ‘Modern Life’ reminds one of the similarly tit [...]
Book Review: Digital Art
It is always interesting to read of the conception and progression of an art form. In Sylvia Martin’s, Video Art it becomes evident that the genre of [...]
Book Review: Naiza Khan Monograph
ArtAsiaPacific recently published a book on Naiza Khan, one of Pakistan’s most influential contemporary artists. The book, which is the first major mo [...]
Book Review: Ijaz ul Hassan – Five Decades of Painting
The word ‘Internet’ is perhaps not imaginative enough to encompass all that it has come to mean. An exponential increase in information and the diffus [...]
Together We Stand Alone
“If you have to go crazy, please go crazy all by yourself!” Ursula tells her husband in Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s acclaimed novel, One Hundred Years of [...]
Eclectic Influences: Miniature Matters at VM Gallery
In 1981, American artist Sherrie Levine re-photographed the works of prominent photographers Edward Weston and Walker Evans instead of creating her ow [...]