Welcome to a generous selection of articles from DAWN's Weekly Gallery.
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The voyeur painter
 Male nudity has remained a taboo with fine artists. Despite bitter criticism in the last century of the artists’ obsession with the female figure, issues related to male sexuality rarely made...
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Of drugs and death
 No picturesque scenes or difficult to analyze abstracts, the message in all the paintings and posters was the same, and loud and clear. Smoking it, snorting it, popping it or injecting...
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Rainbow in the desert
 Each one of us has an inherent urge to sing, to paint, to write or to create. This desire for self-expression is the source of creation and the fire that fuels...
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The giving artist
 Lal Muhammad’s art output and stylistic developments have also progressed alongside his humanitarian activities through art. A look through the albums replete with photo-specimens of his early work reveals his gradual...
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Of life and other demons
 There is a move among a section of artists in the west to extend ‘art into life’— never more apparent than when faced with the contenders for the controversial, but financially...
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An art bonanza
 Even an hour does not seem to suffice to take in the exhibition at the Canvas Art Gallery, Karachi. The works of 23 artists, most of them big names, make for...
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Deaf, not dumb
 If one were to name a common trait that is invariably shared by all truly accomplished people it has got to be their lack of self-righteousness. They are not ashamed of...
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PUNJA BUZZ: Artisans’ Park
Summer in Lahore is hardly the right time to inaugurate a public park and that too along the Mall, which takes the major share of the noisy and polluting city traffic....
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