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Enter the optimist
 Amin Gulgee’s workshop was in full swing when I dropped in to see his latest work in progress and his work, metal pieces waiting to be joined and other sculpture in the process of being welded, made an exciting cacophony of sound....
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Look what we did
 Poor Goya. In his lifetime he had to put up with deafness, the Spanish Inquisition and the Duke of Wellington. Now he has Jake and Dinos Chapman to contend with. The brothers called one of their earliest tributes to the great Spanish painter...
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Treasure island
 The 7th National Exhibition was held at Islamabad in 1996 where established artists dominated the exhibition with a collection of compelling works. In the years between, national award-winning artists such as Akram Dost, Unver Shafi and Hajra...
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Return of the native
 Aamer Inayatullah’s first solo exhibition, held in Lahore, was swamped and somewhat overshadowed by the attendance of larger-than-life guests. The 52 watercolours and a few objects in ceramics could have been...
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Moody shades
 Artists, like poets and writers, have their own ways of showing their moods and feelings. In the paintings, sketches and drawings exhibited by Zebun Zuby at Karachi’s Majmua Art Gallery, she...
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Bold and lyrical
 At the exhibition titled The Sacred Profane at Karachi’s Canvas gallery this May, the expression of the contradictory became a metaphor for life and beauty. If the self is in contradiction within its social milieu, it then becomes necessary to communicate that....
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Art in public buildings
 If you find a piece of art forming an integral part of a public building in Pakistan, in the shape of, say, a few paintings or a mural or a sculpture,...
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Better galleries now
The number of art galleries in Karachi is increasing and the variety is improving. While the two dozen art galleries, big and small, do help sell many more paintings than before, have they really improved the quality of the art on sale, particularly paintings and sculpture? Have they truly culturally enriched...
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