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 [...]
Art that Constructs on Destruction
In a tutorial with artist Paula Kane during my post-graduate studies, I felt augmented upon finding an unsettling relation of actuality and myth in he [...]
Ahmed Ali Manganhar
Ahmed Ali Manganhar was born in Tando Allahyar and studied at the National College of Arts, Lahore. He has exhibited across the globe and has a loyal [...]
Lubna Agha
Aasim Akhtar was fortunate enough to interview Lubna Agha before she passed away. This was one of her last public interviews.
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Teaching Art to Street Kids
The Street Art project is aimed at creating the means for the social inclusion of a disenfranchised group of children who spend a crucial part of thei [...]
Hiba Schahbaz at Twelve Gates Arts
For a long time, Chinese contemporary art in New York art caught the eye of Western art-world professionals and collectors, but that is now changing. [...]
Collective Energy
Fresh work radiating a vibrant energy would be the words to describe the exhibition at the outgoing US Ambassador’s residence in Islamabad in the thir [...]
Art and Polemic in Pakistan
The genre of contemporary miniature is still in its infancy, having gained prominence in just the last two decades. Yet its rise and significance has [...]
Collective Energy
Fresh work radiating a vibrant energy would be the words to describe the exhibition at the outgoing US Ambassador’s residence in Islamabad in the thir [...]
Karachi Smiles
Shelley Pirzada came to Pakistan from India 22 years ago, having studied photojournalism from the London College of Printing and having worked in New [...]