Category: Reviews
Sculptor Shahid Sajjad is the recipient of the Engro Excellence Award 2012
The Engro Excellence Awards held in Karachi for the second year running is gaining credence with the intelligentsia of the nation simply bec [...]
Sex and Violence Death and Silence by Gordon Burn
Gordon Burn was a writer not an art critic. He wrote four well-received novels , one of them called Alma Cogen for which he received the Whitbread Fir [...]
Iqbal Geoffrey
My first awareness of Iqbal Geoffrey was through The Odder Storey, his very own one-man-show retrospective temporary-museum, within Rasheed Aræen’s 19 [...]
Disguises and Deceit: Saba Iqbal
In the psychological drama of everyday life, human beings react to events in strange and bizarre ways— people cry at graduations and weddings, others [...]
Iqbal Geoffrey
My first awareness of Iqbal Geoffrey was through The Odder Storey, his very own one-man-show retrospective temporary-museum, within Rasheed Aræen’s 19 [...]
Peer Pressure by Brad Troemel
We rarely get to read anything of actual substance within critical writing these days. So much so that we naively celebrate pieces written by ‘star’ c [...]
Paroxysms of Spirituality
Two young artists Komail Aijazuddin and Mohammad Ali presented their works at Canvas Gallery, Karachi in December. The two sets of work were titled se [...]
The Frenzy of Karachi in 3D
Sculpture is alive and kicking and the recent show at Art Chowk titled ‘Mad in Karachi’ affirms it with aplomb. It is not the lack [...]
Globalization and Contemporary Art
Globalization has entered the mainstream lexicon of 21st century with an assuredness of belonging that few other words or ideas can share. Though the [...]
arTCF fundraiser for TCF schools
Art exhibitions for fundraising are a universal phenomenon and exemplify a win-win situation for all concerned in the process. Eme [...]