Category: Reviews

Three Artists: Soul Searchers at Rohtas Gallery, Islamabad
History. Memory. The way we perceive ourselves through these two themes through the personal, the political, or through the earth and nature itself. S [...]

Seven Days in the Art World
Seven Days in the Art World comprises a series of narratives about seven events and situations in the art world that includes 250 interviews, countles [...]

Vasl Workshop
Vasl International Artists’ Workshop 2012 was an inventive, genre-specific residency, a refreshing interlude to an otherwise monotonous art [...]

Panorama at The Singapore Art Museum
Both in scope and duration, the new show at the Singapore Art Museum (SAM) “PANORAMA: Recent Art from Contemporary Asia” is a big undertakin [...]

The $12 Million Stuffed Shark
Don Thompson, a Harvard economist, decided to investigate the art market and its idiosyncrasies. His exhaustive, meticulously researched pub [...]

Book Review: The Boy who Bit Picasso
The Boy Who Bit Picasso is a book by Antony Penrose, the son of Lee Miller and painter-writer Sir Roland Penrose, whose childhood association with Pic [...]

Mehr Afroz: Naqsh Bar Aab
Meher Afroz combines the personal and the universal within the framework of spirituality
Meher Afroz’s solo show [...]

Abraaj Capital Art Prize 2012
The Abraaj Capital Art Prize (ACAP) is one of the world’s largest art prizes comprising 1 million US dollars given out annually to a set of 3 to 5 art [...]

Mere Humd(r)um at Aicon Gallery – New York
Sadia Salim reviews a vibrant show of young Pakistan artists at Aicon Gallery New York.
On entering 35 Great Jones Street, I of [...]

In the Madding Crowd
Startling, acutely analytical, often bordering on inanity or crystalizing as profound, the volume Writers on Artists demonstrates that the possibiliti [...]