The author is an art critic based in Lahore
"I am not a Jewish writer, I am a writer who is a Jew" Philip Roth With the evolution of human social structure, from tribes and hordes to societies...
‘Why are you still writing in long-hand and don’t use a typewriter, word processor or computer?’ was the question put to Javier...
Doubles, however, come cheap these days. Although I am not a well-known writer, I too have one, who performs an increasingly alarming number of...
Life is nothing but a process of decay decorating itself with illusions -- Giuseppe Ungaretti The Italian poet describes a phenomenon that has...
"Can it be that we are tired of whatever it is that we in fact are -- black, white, brown, yellow, male, female, large, small, Greek, German,...
A few days after the opening of ‘Art Fest 2014’ as part of the Sindh Festival, the role of gallery as a public or private space was...
The art of Rashid Rana, like all works of great significance, has diverse origins and manifests in multiple expressions. Works from his latest solo...
Several years ago an artist handed me his business card which stood out for its unusualness. Besides the name, it had the artist’s brief...
It seemed like a fish market or a summer sale. It certainly did not look like the preview of a degree show at a premier art institution of Pakistan....
Even before you step into a show, you start imagining and anticipating the artworks, the gallery space, the light arrangement and, of course, the...
Although the end of one year and the beginning of the next appear identical, each year is different in its own way. The most prominent political...
Many years ago, a self-proclaimed intellectual used to roam the studios of NCA in the late afternoon. Coarse cotton shawl wrapped around his...
Komail Aijazuddin’s paintings are not perfect as far as the level of drawing is concerned; there is a lot of repetition of theme and...
Last Sunday I pulled myself out of the house and went to a nearby hardware store to do a task long overdue -- buy two door handles to be installed...
It’s interesting that the Urdu word for medicine , goli, is also one that describes something that takes life. Perhaps the connection comes...
The relationship between an artist and gallery is analogous to that of a typical husband and wife. Occasionally, one of them suspects the other is...
It seems as if it is violence, more than language, religion, geography or race, that connects the people of this country. Recent events have...
