Spinning the wheel
One moves from one august pot to the next, enjoying the floods and diaphanous veils of colour, sheaves of burning stripes, technical control, and marvels once more at the unpredictability of...
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Another faux pas
The decision to shift the Dir museum from Chakdara to the Malakand Agency has become controversial as the inhabitants of Dir have threatened to forcefully stop any such move. The people...
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Out of Africa
African sculpture is generally regarded as representing three stylistic groups, each covering vast regions of land. The Sudanese influence involves Mali (formerly French Sudan), the Volta region and the northern part...
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Pretty woman
The first thing that strikes one about Moazzam Ali’s work is the effect of light. Waves of entire areas submerged in whiteness, burning boundaries, diluting colour, rising up as a haze,...
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Bold and beautiful
The Art Emporium in Lahore houses a world of oil paintings, exclusively designed furniture and antique mirrors. The marbled foyer leads into a lounge where the cackle of wood draws attention...
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“You go when your time is up”— Francis Newton Souza (1924-2002)
Souza liked Karachi. He liked the people and the atmosphere of dynamic chaos he detected in the city whenever he dropped in to show his work at the Indus Gallery, en...
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