Category: Reviews
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 [...]
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 [...]