Confounding confessions
Over the last ten years or so, it is as if the viewer has been taken on an unnerving journey through dark alleys, sombre pathways, and the much desolate architectural spaces that eventually lead into the inner world of an artist’s mind....
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Indigenous moorings
This may be a wrong statement, but generally the Pakistani artists are shy of using colours. It is noticed that many painters prefer to work in subdued hues, for instance....
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The world in a grain of sand
It was a low-key affair, one, in any case, that did not receive much publicity — no press kits nor publicity stills were made available to journalists....
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Minis are in
What are the ingredients of today’s ideal home, but a Flatron TV, Persian carpets, period furniture, private generator and the security guard, along with a modern miniature...
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A riot of still-borns
Saima Ahmed’s paintings of still life arrangements, dressed in flamboyant colour patterns are on display at Karachi’s Kunj Art Gallery. Pushing colour intensity to the extreme, the artist compels viewer attention...
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Songs and voices
Featured art critics in London rarely go overboard in their assessment of modern art, so Richard Dormant’s enthusiastic review on a modern sculpture exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery caught my attention....
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