Text | Sara Yawar – Visuals | Courtesy The News, Vasl Artist’s Association, Pro Helvetia New Delhi and Canvas Gallery – Issue 56 – Since the emergence of the Coronavirus, the world has been thrown into a social and economic quagmire. Various industries collapsed while the lives of millions of people have crumbled under the […]
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Text & Visuals | Amra Ali – Issue 56 – Meher Afroz’s art has drawn my interest for the last thirty years. From starting my art collection in the early 1990s with painting on paper from the Mask Series (1986-89) to acquiring later work and subsequently curating Meher’s work, her subtle imagery and manner has
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Text & Visuals | Aymen Ansari – Issue 56 – We are no strangers to the fact that this has been a summer of unforeseen historical challenges, with widespread death and destruction in an on-going global pandemic, state sanctioned violence and blazing protests against racism and inequality. It goes without saying; the stakes are different
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Text | Aasim Akhtar – Visuals | Accessed Online – Issue 55 – As tempting as it is to saddle Muzaffar Ali with the title“versatile”, the truth is that the veteran filmmaker, actor, painter, designer and organizer cannot be so easily defined. For starters there’s his brave choice of subjects – in films like Aagaman,
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Text | Hammad Ali – Visuals Courtesy | Noor Ahmed – Issue 53|54 – A woman’s head in profile, a nonchalant expression and military cropped hair. She peers into nothingness, legs gathered, crossed, and folded in a deliberate attempt to attract the viewer’s eye to such an uncomfortable positioning. Her androgyny alludes to subversion and
Text | Aymen Ansari – Visuals | Koel Gallery – Issue 51 – For over a century, abstract art has become an integral aspect of modern art forms, so much so that it has successfully taken over the traditions of the past. Although the term ‘modern’ encompasses a number of unique styles, the underlying principles
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Text & Visuals | Rafi Ahmed – Issue 51 – The exhibition, Drawing a Line, based on the architectural drawings, sketches and doodles of four designers, concluded recently at IVSAA gallery. The show was curated by Ayesha Bilal, Rafi Ahmed and Zohaib Zuby, and featured the drawings of Danish Azar Zuby, Ejaz Malik, Saifullah Sami,
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Text | Sara Yawar – Visuals | Courtesy Sanat Initiative – Issue 51 – A solo exhibition titled ‘You think you know me!’ by artist Irfan Gul Dahri was showcased at Sanat Initiative in Karachi on the 20th of December, 2019. Born in Shahdadpur, Sindh, Dahri is a Lahore-based artist who holds a Master’s Degree
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Text | Sarah Cheema – Visuals | As mentioned – Issue 51 – Perhaps its lady luck or maybe it’s written in the stars but the past few months have been very good to Lahore. Starting out with being chosen to be part of UNESCO’s Creative Cities Network along with 65 other vibrant cities of
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Text | Zainub Mawaz-Khan – Visuals | Mehwish Abid – Issue 50 – By focusing on multiple art genres including fine art (painting, drawing, ceramics), music, photography, film, and other visual styles, art festivals have become tools to understand our history. From social trends to the economy, there are endless studies to prove that arts
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