Building bridges, not walls
Calligrapher, journalist, writer, painter, intellectual, and a politician; this is not in order of merit but the chronological progress of a career that gradually grew into a composite whole: Hanif Ramay. Lines separating these pursuits and talents have been obliterated...
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Documenting Balochistan
A unique focus for students of history and archaeology worldwide is the Balochistan Study Centre, inaugurated in the University of Balochistan, Quetta, in October 1998. Its main objectives were to engage...
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Stranger at home
Dr Rasheed Araeen’s visit to his home in Karachi this winter, and his subsequent presentation of what he terms the manifesto on the ‘Art of Resistance’, could become the basis for a much needed artistic discourse that encompasses...
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Ode to children
Exhibition of paintings by a young artist, Fauzia Aziz Minallah, opened at the Nomad Gallery in Islamabad. The 35 works of art on display comprised mixed-media paintings on paper and two-dimensional...
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Take on the female psyche
Its a hat trick, as Karachi’s Zenaini Art Gallery scores three hits in a row. After two successful shows by Riffat Alvi and Nahid Raza, the gallery has yet another winner, courtesy young artist Akbar Hafeez. A sellout exhibition by a relatively newcomer, gives Hafeez reason....
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Harking back at excellence
The Indus Gallery is displaying a dramatic assembly of masterful artworks comprising the cache collected painstakingly over the years and some new exciting works. One had to have been as entwined...
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