Category: Retrospective
A R Nagori: A Retrospective
Writing a retrospective about someone whom you have never met is quite challenging at one point yet quite enkindling at another. while conce [...]
Shemza: No longer the unsung hero
Prologue:“The creative being exists in multi-layered realities; “the temporal-spatial", the physical, the emotional, the imagi [...]
Ustad Allah Baksh: A Retrospective
Allah Bakhsh who rose to become Ustad Allah Bakhsh was no ordinary man. His story likewise is an extra-ordinary story. The wondrous tapestry [...]
RETROSPECTIVE: Anna Molka Ahmed, One of Pakistan’s Early Art Pioneers
Anna Molka Ahmed was the first art teacher in Pakistan to take her students outdoors to paint their surroundings. Her own work, thick impast [...]
Zahoor ul Akhlaque: Life, Teaching & Work
Doing a retrospective piece on Zahoor ul Akhlaque, the most potent artist of our times is a daunting idea, to begin with. How does one separ [...]
A Glimpse at the Enigmatic life of Ahmed Parvez
When invited to write about my father, Ahmed Parvez, I had only two sources I could rely on: early childhood memories of my life with him in 1960’s Lo [...]
Approaching Rasheed Araeen in contemporary Pakistan
The complexity of Rasheed Araeen’s vast trajectory poses challenging issues of interpretation. Its interface with the historical past of art [...]
Jamil Naqsh: Art is a Way of Life
For Jamil Naqsh painting is a way of life. He is a man who has lived – and continues to live his life for art. Painting to please himself; he is a mas [...]
Memoirs of Art in Pakistan – The life of Marjorie Husain
Marjorie Husain is an integral part of the Pakistani art scene on several levels: artist, art critic, curator, writer and documenter, lecturer, [...]
Shakeel Siddiqui – The Illusionist
On 10th January at around 9.00 pm Shakeel had posted on our Whatsapp group two videos of classic old songs sung by Khursheed: “Panchi Bawra” and “Ghat [...]