Category: Reviews
Ussman aur Mein
When artist Ussman Ghouri passed away last year, he left behind a vast collection of unfinished pieces. For the group exhibit "Ussman aur Mein," 67 of [...]
The Process of Poetry
Mian Ijaz ul Hassan is one of those rare Pakistani painters who are relentless in pursuing poetry in real life and who, like unabashed Romantics, insi [...]
Sublime Encounters
“The greatest mystery is not that we have been flung at random between the profusion of the earth and the galaxy of the stars, but that in this prison [...]
Cityscape/Landscape
Bend in the Scapes” at Satrang Gallery in Islamabad presents metropolitan, bucolic and ‘mental’ landscapes by seven Pakistani and one Swedish artist. [...]
Book Review: Painting – Documents of Contemporary Art
In his introduction, Myers quotes painter Paul Delaroche’s proclamation on first seeing a daguerreotype (the first commercially successful photographi [...]
Sarnath Banerjee
When Mohammad Hanif opened the conversation with Sarnath Banerjee at T2F in front of a packed audience, an awkward moment of silence ensued while Bane [...]
American Legends by Yousuf Karsh
From its inception to the present times, photographic portraiture has been one of the most extensively used phenomena in art and science to record the [...]
I Had No Choice But to Hear You
Adeela Suleman traverses a narrow space between several paradoxes both structurally and thematically in her new body of work titled “I Had no Choice b [...]
Despite the title, an interesting book
Francesca Gavin’s recently published book titled “ Despite moments of clarity, there is no ism in this book” is one of those books whose cover is intr [...]
Ripples of tension
In a short duration of time, Kohi Marri has established himself as a leading photographer of Pakistan. Although his inventive view of the fashion worl [...]