Category: Reviews
Postmodern Populism
The creative act of perceiving the ordinary as extraordinary is finding remarkably imaginative expressions amongst the current crop of contemporary ar [...]
Book Review: Art and Today
Art and Today is one of those rare coffee table books that offer a consummate insight into the paradigms that constitute the often baffling contempora [...]
Art that Constructs on Destruction
In a tutorial with artist Paula Kane during my post-graduate studies, I felt augmented upon finding an unsettling relation of actuality and myth in he [...]
Teaching Art to Street Kids
The Street Art project is aimed at creating the means for the social inclusion of a disenfranchised group of children who spend a crucial part of thei [...]
Hiba Schahbaz at Twelve Gates Arts
For a long time, Chinese contemporary art in New York art caught the eye of Western art-world professionals and collectors, but that is now changing. [...]
Collective Energy
Fresh work radiating a vibrant energy would be the words to describe the exhibition at the outgoing US Ambassador’s residence in Islamabad in the thir [...]
Art and Polemic in Pakistan
The genre of contemporary miniature is still in its infancy, having gained prominence in just the last two decades. Yet its rise and significance has [...]
Collective Energy
Fresh work radiating a vibrant energy would be the words to describe the exhibition at the outgoing US Ambassador’s residence in Islamabad in the thir [...]
First Impressions on Documenta (XIII)
Simone Wille visits Kassel on the opening of Documenta, the most prestigious art event in the world.
After long specu [...]
The Hare with Amber Eyes
Netsuke. Miniature wood and ivory carvings, fragments from the Edo period of the seventeenth to the mid nineteenth centuries, sold to art de [...]