The author is an art critic based in Lahore
If we sift through the outer layer of Salman Toor’s paintings we realise they deal with a certain type of madness, excessiveness and exaggeration...
‘No Fight, Be A Donkey’, the solo exhibition of Muhammad Zeeshan at ‘O’ Art Space presents the artist’s shockingly distinct position
The 13th edition of Art Dubai once again offered unique opportunities of interaction and had a significant presence of artists from Pakistan
A curator and writer, Vali Mahlouji’s project that resurrects the red-light district ‘Shahr-e No’ of Tehran was recently on display at Rohtas...
Meher Afroz’s mixed media paintings at O Art Space are documents of our destiny, defeat, disappointment -- and delight
Painters, sculptors and artisans throughout history have served the victor’s vision, and today we admire these pieces of untruths as great...
The accidental and intentional losses of art and artists who didn’t go to the right art school and lived far from major cities
Although 20 years have gone by since Zahoor ul Akhlaq passed away, no one is more alive today in Pakistani art than him
Is a self-portrait a portrait or an accumulation of the artist’s ideas about herself and her surroundings?
R.M. Naeem’s new paintings at his solo exhibition at Sanat Initiative, Karachi document a shift in his asthetics
There could be a parallel history of creative people who have in a state of utter desperation committed suicide. So what does life and death,...
At her solo show at Canvas Gallery, Karachi, Risham Syed depicts how the past can also be personal and political
David Alesworth’s recent work at Koel Gallery Karachi is a map of man’s interaction and inference with nature
In her recent solo show at Iqbal Museum, Sehr Jalil excavates the past from an individualistic point of view, denoting the theme of war, struggle...
2018 was a prolific year. With the turning of each new leaf of history, we are entering into unexpected, extraordinary and exciting worlds of...
In his one-person exhibition at Taseer Art Gallery, Imran Mudassar depicts the seeker of knowledge as the most feared representative of bigotry
In her latest solo show at Koel Gallery, Karachi, Laila Rahman’s paintings open up new possibilities of reading the text of our time
In her latest solo exhibition at Canvas Gallery Karachi, Wardha Shabbir is pursuing something more sophisticated and subtle despite using similar...
The arts, the attitudes and the freedom of expression
Tanzara Gallery, Islamabad provided an occasion to view the masterly surfaces of Iqbal Hussain
