Moeen Faruqi: Visceral Encounters
Asma Mundrawala: Let’s begin by talking about your imagery. Who are these people in your paintings?
Moeen Faruqi: They [...]
Tazeen Qayyum
ArtNow: The idea of entomology is an integral part of your oeuvre. What does it mean to you? What is the significance of the cockroach?
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Damishq, the City of Jasmine
Damascus, commonly known as al-Shaam, is also known as the "City of Jasmine" Arabic: (Madinatul Yasmin) It is the capital and largest city of Syria, a [...]
Iqbal Geoffrey
My first awareness of Iqbal Geoffrey was through The Odder Storey, his very own one-man-show retrospective temporary-museum, within Rasheed Aræen’s 19 [...]
Peer Pressure by Brad Troemel
We rarely get to read anything of actual substance within critical writing these days. So much so that we naively celebrate pieces written by ‘star’ c [...]
Paroxysms of Spirituality
Two young artists Komail Aijazuddin and Mohammad Ali presented their works at Canvas Gallery, Karachi in December. The two sets of work were titled se [...]
Decorated Trucks of Pakistan
Meaning is always in process, what has been called “a momentary stop in a continuing flow of interpretations of interpretations”. This paper pauses at [...]
Huma Bhabha
Huma Bhabha was born in 1962 in Karachi, Pakistan, and currently lives and works in Poughkeepsie, New York. Most recently, she was included in the 201 [...]
Irfan Hasan
ArtNow: Why did you choose to become a miniature artist? Was it the tempting ‘bandwagon’?
Irfan Hasan: If you see the trajector [...]