Category: Reviews

Space, Earth, Landscape : Muhanned Cader at Koel Gallery
Is it a swallow in flight, or a slow dagger ascending, a map, a mask, the gruff mouth of a cave, or perhaps a nameless form? Sri Lankan artist Muhanne [...]

The Expressionist Impressionist
Iqbal Hussain was back in Islamabad for its third exhibition at Tanzara Gallery. Noshi Qadir, owner and director of the gallery, presented some of the [...]

Memoirs of the Future
Every year when the Young Artists Exhibition goes up at Lahore’s Alhamra Art Gallery, the excitement surrounding it reminds me of the buzz and drama t [...]

Book Review: Gerhard Richter – A Life in Painting
Dietmar Elger’s Gerhard Richter: A Life in Painting charts Richter’s life from his Dresden days as mural painter to early experiments in painting and [...]

Metropolyptical: Risham Syed
One often hears that Lahore looks like Amritsar or old Delhi. It is difficult to imagine people in the Indian part of the subcontinent having had the [...]

New Works by Maryam Rahman Agha and Nida Bangash
New Works by Maryam Rahman Agha and Nida Bangash
Nida Bangash’s series of works, The Ultimate Guide for Healthier, Less Toxic Living, finds its ref [...]

New Romantic
NEW ROMANTIC
“You know that place between sleep and awake, the place where you can still remember dreaming? That’s where I’ll always love you. That [...]

Forever in Transit: Aroosa Naz
There is a film adaptation of Shakespeares Hamlet made in 2000 by Michael Almereyda and set in modern-day New York, which is not as lauded as the othe [...]

Book Review: Chance – Documents of Contemporary Art
Edited by Margaret Iversen, Chance is a compilation of writings that observes the gap between intention and consequence, giving the ‘spontaneous’ or ‘ [...]

“The Dancing Line”: Mohammad Ali Talpur
Mohammad Ali Talpur’s work has long been an exploration of the possibilities and limitations of the line. Though he has by no means abandoned the line [...]