The writer is an art critic based in Islamabad.
Stories – their telling and re-telling across generations and cultures – feature at the warm heart of artist Hassnain Awais’s work
Arif Mehmood, the photographer, speaks to us of our fragility, sometimes through his most abstract photograph, his sparsest landscape
Abdullah Shah Alamee highlights the slippage between linguistic signifier and loaded symbol, both embedded in the practice of calligraphy
Literary festivals present diverse perspectives on the world and carry political meaning into the present
Built in 1928, the Mehta Mansion at 11 Temple Road, Lahore, stands today as a lone sentinel
Farrukh Addnan’s work highlights the inherent hierarchies of power and protection
Curator Zahra Khan’s ‘Imagination’ at Satrang Gallery brings out the recalcitrant moments in art
The eighth edition of Islamabad Literature Festival, was another vibrant amalgamation of book launches, talks and repartees
Wajahat Malik’s debut stands out for its mesh of the pastoral, the modern and the archaic
For Quddus Mirza, the recreation of life in terms of art constitutes a pagan mystery, almost on the level of primitive magic rites
