Welcome to a generous selection of articles from DAWN's Weekly Gallery.
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Art on trial
 A mushroom growth in art schools, colleges, hobby centres prolific production of a variety of art, emergence of many new art galleries and alternative art spaces...
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One year of Gallery
 Art writing can be traced as far back in time as Plato’s works from the fourth century BC, and over the centuries it has became a wide genre that has filled...
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Truth or dare?
Umberto Eco, commenting on the Italian press once said: “When it is not talking about television, the Italian press talks about itself.” Following this example, the present issue of the Gallery has turned self-reflective....
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Stuck with his first love
 Entering the dimly lit, cool interior of Shahid Sajjad’s home in Karachi, one is greeted by life-size wooden figures — his extended family, as it were. From the loosely cobbled wooden...
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From darbar to gallery, via bazaar
 The Mughal emperors, like many medieval rulers in Asia and Europe, sought ways and means to promote their image and to show off their wealth and glory....
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Nurturing the woman within
 Sitting across Nahid Raza, I was reminded of the vivacious Nahid of many years ago. Loud fits of laughter used to ring across the art school where we studied together. She...
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Book among the ruins
 It is often said of actors with pretensions of directing or writing that they should stick with whatever they feel comfortable with. A similar truism can apply in sports to players...
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Ode to a Grecian urn
 A picture may be worth a thousand words, but a piece of painted pottery is worth a thousand and one nights of storytelling. An ancient tradition conducive to cultivating, preserving and...
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The prisons within
 There is a discrepancy between seeing an object and knowing it. One has to imagine as well as perceive with several other faculties of the mind in order to understand what...
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Building artlessly
 As I approached Jeremy Till’s house in London’s Caledonian Road one sunny morning last week, it made me smile. Made of straw and concrete and clad in what appears to be...
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Reading Sadequain
 It is easy to pass by soulless work but art from the heart can accost the viewer, compelling confrontation. The Holy Sinner: Sadequain 1954-1987 is not jut a befitting tribute to...
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An affair with the ragas
 I came close to Ali Imam on account of his interest in music. Not many people know of the musical side to his personality. It was 1972 and I had just...
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Objet d’art
 The most spectacular manifestation of the Hindu rite of clockwise circumambulation — Pradakshina — is the annual procession of gods, goddesses and their attendants riding in specially constructed chariots known as...
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Painting from experience
 “I want to paint huge murals. This is possibly my last exhibition in Karachi because I plan to stay in one place and work for six months on one piece.” So...
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Innovation, anyone?
 Sadly, it was not even ‘a streetcar named desire’. Rather, it was an expensive and exclusive limousine titled Khuabon ki Shehzadi, or the dream girl. It stayed longer in your head...
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Martial art
 Public art do not simply make statements. They make loud proclamations about what a city — or a country — is about. Let’s look around our cities. The first displays that...
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