Category: Reviews

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 [...]

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 [...]