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The incorrigible optimist
 For Salima Hashmi there was no life before or after the fact. Art has always been around for as long as she can recall, and she for her part, has always dabbled with it. That, as most would have guessed, has everything to do...
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Collectors’ world
 Collectors rarely get their due as personalities, pioneers or art revolutionaries. They are more often than not seen as benefactors, rich men and women who leave behind museums, their collections...
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Dial 542 for art
 Landscape artist and printmaker, Ghulam Rasul, makes his artistic statements through interplay of vibrant colours and forms. After completing his pre-retirement leave from the Pakistan National Council of the Arts as...
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Where it all began
 It all started in 1951. Sadequain’s family had migrated from Amroha to Karachi soon after partition, and his elder brother, Syed Husnain Ahmed Naqvi, suffered from tuberculosis. The family was...
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Candid camera
 Illustrations are a large part of the story in Secret Knowledge. Linked by an exiguous text that breathes an engaging Boys’ Own Paper practical enthusiasm, the pictures create a tension between...
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Of love and other demons
 Translated literally, Alf Layla-va-Layla means “One Thousand Nights and A Night”. These timeless tales, were recounted orally in Arabia for centuries, but were probably written and compiled...
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Dialogues in clay
 Forty years of active involvement in crafting dialogues in clay that oscillate between the usual and the most unsusceptible, has helped Salahuddin carve a niche for himself. And in doing so, he has...
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No frills, just art
 There is art on the walls, great art, by Picasso and Monet, Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein, Mark Rothko and Georges Braque. But this is not a typical museum. In fact, the new Pulitzer Foundation ...
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Beauty too tangible
 Architecture is a total representation. It reveals itself entirely in all its four-dimensional reality. And while this may be the source of its power, it is also its greatest defect. Because of its...
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From the horse’s mouth
 Without giving blanket disapproval to the movies usually churned out by Lollywood, it has to be admitted that they often come down hard on our sensibilities. But that holds true only...
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