Welcome to a generous selection of articles from DAWN's Weekly Gallery.
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First among equals
 BEFORE Laila Rahman sat down for the interview, she walked me through her exhibition at Chawkandi and spoke of her work on display. The images were haunting and intense, almost depressing. The headless figures, a recurrent theme in the artist’s works...
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Fashioning the American image
 Imagine: there was a time when the great depression of the 1930s seemed, in the words of one historian, “an oddly invisible phenomenon”. This seems hard to credit now that we experience it, overwhelmingly, as a visual phenomenon...
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Ode to life
 The garden area of the museum is just magical. The benches placed on the lawn by the late professor and the innovations carried out by the PNCA create a small, cloistered haven. The place exudes the presence of Shakir Ali all around: in the red brick walls...
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Elusive and enigmatic
 Intellectually motivated, remarkably self-assured and hugely talented, Zubeida Agha, premier avant-garde artist of Pakistan lived her life on her own terms. An island unto herself, she seldom mingled with the art milieu around her and her work spawned...
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The native abroad
 Gregory Minissale was very much part of the Karachi art scene from the mid-‘80s till the early 90s. At the time he arrived in Pakistan, he was a young man in his early twenties who had just graduated in art history from Sussex University...
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Bhupen Khakhar’s narratives
 Imagine a sequence of dream visions drawn by David Hockney, coloured by Howard Hodgkin and choreographed by Marc Chagall. That gives only the mildest taste of the rich masala of flavours...
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