Category: Reviews
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 [...]
Despite the title, an interesting book
Francesca Gavin’s recently published book titled “ Despite moments of clarity, there is no ism in this book” is one of those books whose cover is intr [...]
Ripples of tension
In a short duration of time, Kohi Marri has established himself as a leading photographer of Pakistan. Although his inventive view of the fashion worl [...]
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 [...]