Welcome to a generous selection of articles from DAWN's Weekly Gallery.
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Belinda’s world
 On the wall a few feet from my pillow in our London bedroom is a painting in which a brown dog with white patches is playfully chasing a large golden lizard in a tight circle. The dog’s muscles are bunched and the lizard seems desperate to escape....
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Cast in his own mould
 Saleem Mansur is an extremely interesting artist: ‘an artist’s artist’ as Ali Imam used to say. Bashir Mirza who juried Mansur’s thesis work at the CIAC in ‘83, was also numbered...
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A new genre?
 Reviewing an exhibition showing block-printed canvas ‘wall hangings’, at Karachi’s Majmua art gallery, is a challenging task. This is because it is not your regular artworks using different media. The show...
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Picture perfect
 Perhaps ‘watch’ is the single-most appropriate word to describe the essence of photography. This is because the actual process of taking a photograph is about a person watching the world through...
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The spirit of Sughra Rababi
 Unlike the flickering images of the mass media, art requires the long look. Its images do not pass. They can be contemplated, returned to and examined in the light of their...
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The more, the merrier
 A friend phoning from London spoke of the 235th Royal Summer Exhibition which opened recently at the Royal Academy, terming the exhibition a ‘hodge-podge, too much to take in.’ With over a thousand...
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A la nature
 In the absence of a proper art magazine, or an artists’ organization that could function in informing artists of exhibitions, residencies and workshops available to them in other countries, it is...
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Playing to the gallery
 I remember someone asking me last year, “Will Raja Changez Sultan, better known as a painter and poet than as a bureaucrat, have the satisfaction of getting the National Art...
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