Welcome to a generous selection of articles from DAWN's Weekly Gallery.
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The melting pot
 Contemporary art in Pakistan may be said to have started in the 1950s. Artists, newly arrived in Karachi, found no national form to which to relate. Turning their back on the traditions of the subcontinent they began to create their traditions there and then....
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Bulls and bears
 Actually, the second year of third millennium was not much different from the past years, even though we had the polling, parliament and patriots in Pakistan. Similarly, in terms of art, one cannot point out a major event/change that....
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Beyond the Great Game
 In British India, William Baker and John Burke were among the earliest war and landscape photographers and influenced a host of others. Together or individually, they covered the Ambala campaigns of...
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‘A’ for Afghan art
 Although there is documentation on poets and prose writers belonging to Afghanistan, very little is known of its painters. In Pakistan we have through the years seen exhibitions of artists trained...
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