Sculpture, mon amour
Two years ago, three artists from Lahore exhibited their work together in Karachi in a display of paintings, ceramics and sculpture and I found my attention gravitate towards a group of...
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What colour are you, water?
While exhibitions of paintings have become a regular, welcome and indeed a pleasant feature of Lahore’s cultural life, a splash of watercolours just when winter was taking a rather unusual near-freezing turn has been intriguing....
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Winter of content
The year opened with an unprecedented flurry of activities in the art world with galleries mounting one new exhibit after another. And there was quite a bit of diverse ones to...
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Engendered art
If we seek to reconstruct images from forgotten biographies, it might help to start with the pioneers and the peers. If, on the contrary, the drive is to perpetuate the official mythology by adding up to the lexicon of marmoreal nouns...
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The Imam files
In our immediate art milieu emphasis has always been on abundant art production with scant attention given to art education, interpretation, appreciation or documentation....
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A century of twisted fire starters
Surrealism, as we can now see, was the commanding style of the twentieth century. The other isms — cubism, futurism, expressionism — quickly fizzled....
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