Category: Reviews
In the Forest of Earthly Passions.
Dressed like an old Englishman – trousers pulled high up to the waist and fastened with suspenders, a tweedy jacket for the Islamabad winter, and roun [...]
“Art –A New Approach”
“Art – A New Approach”, a group show featuring Sarah Hashmi, Dua Abbas, Ali Mansur and Scheherezade Junejo, makes no bones about being anything but th [...]
Philosophy: A Photographic Exhibition Arif Mehmood
Arif Mehmood is known for his street photography, but his works are not in the journalistic vein one most often associates with street photography in [...]
Dua Abbas Rizvi
Although the Pakistani art machinery keeps churning out many exciting shows throughout the year to which we respond with nice little spatters of appla [...]
Book Review:The Rest Is Silance
The Rest is Silence: Zahoor Ul Akhlaq: Art and Society in Pakistan
By Roger Connah. 350 pages. Oxford University Press.
By Zarmina Rafi
While Roger [...]
Fifty Shades of Emerald, “Desires of Memory”, and other tales of nostalgia
Not fifty; there were twelve. Twelve shades of emerald, serving as backgrounds for twelve paintings. Layered upon with a mélange of linear imagery in [...]
Many Ways, Multiple Choices: “Intimacy” at Koel Gallery
On first encounter, Intimacy provokes memories of space and intense feelings. Curated by Maha Malik at Koel Gallery in Karachi, the show presents an i [...]
Book Review: Dadi
Iftikhar Dadi’s Modernism and the Art of Muslim South Asia encompasses so many concerns in its title that the reader is obliged to begin the [...]
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 [...]