A lifetime of sculpting
I admired the artworks as students and teachers bustled in and out of the Zuberi’s room. KSA, Karachi’s premier art institute founded in 1965, has produced successive generations of distinguished painters and is now the ‘nursery’ for potential art teachers...
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Impressionist mannerism
Karachi’s Kunj Art Gallery is projecting guest-artist Abid Mehboob Khan and his portfolio of landscapes. No, it is not the usual cultural, semi-urban milieu of the Lahore/Punjab environs or the dusty...
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Care for an art sundae?
Rays of light peep through the outlets set up under a giant tent perched on the city’s outskirts. The light falls on the paintings lying on a weary wooden table amid...
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Bologna!
One man’s trash can well be another’s treasure. This is precisely true for popular art forms and objects. If Philadelphia can be celebrated for the graffiti etched on the walls of...
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Foursome does it
The opening of The Narrative at Karachi’s V.M. Art Gallery was yet another vibrant affair, as most art exhibition inaugurations are colourful, star-studded occasions buzzing with debate and discussion. It was...
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Symphonies of nature
For a breath of fresh air from the radiant climes of Islamabad and Murree visit Karachi’s Momart gallery, where Nasreen Aurangzeb’s images of frothy foliage are sure to refresh your mind...
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