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‘Art is a lived experience’: Shazia Sikander
 In 1992, the final thesis of Shazia Sikander displayed at the National College of Art, Lahore, included a wondrous scroll painted in miniature style. Its theme, aspects of the young painter’s life and its execution, became for me, from that time, on a yardstick....
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On the rocks
 Rock art exists at numerous sites in Pakistan. The northern areas have been well-researched for it. The Kirthar range and the Kachho plains in District Dadu in Sindh depict hunting scenes,...
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Storm in a melting pot
 For the first time in Pakistan’s art history an exhibition of three dimensional artworks from all regions of the country was organized by the Pakistan National Council of the Arts, curated...
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Picture perfect
 The PNCA’s photography exhibition, An Idea of Perfection, opened its doors to Karachiites in April. The show was earlier held in Lahore in February. Aasim Akhtar, himself a photographer, and writer...
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A mixed bag
 Canvas, Karachi, hosted the works of two NCA artists, Nausheen Saeed and Hamra Abbas. Saeed is a sculptor and has been teaching at NCA for a few years. She had worked...
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Potpourri and déjà vu
 Group exhibitions flashing renowned artists’ names in bold and displaying their signature works are fast becoming the trend. That is not to say that they are falling into a stereotypical mould...
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All the way from Dhaka
 Embracing western trends but essentially taking inspiration from within, artists from developing nations have been intermixing the indigenous and the contemporary for a long time. Expressing a rural vision in a...
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Shifty moves
 Even more than politics, the easy beat every reporter would like to have today is the archaeology department, which has lately been in the news for all the good things it...
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