Speaking out on issues
Those who meet the artist for the first time may find it hard to reconcile the considerate young woman with the hard-hitting, articulate work she produces examining the violent aspects that are now woven into the fabric of our lives....
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To his heart’s content
It’s a good thing that life is unpredictable; that way everyone can expect changes and consequently hope for something better to happen. Society recognizes some in a particular strata because of...
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Welcome to ‘new’ Chinese art
Bursting with vitality and a newfound dynamism, the exhibition “Alors, La Chine”, showing appropriately enough at the Centre Pompidou Museum of Modern Art in Paris, showcases the diverse work of over fifty ‘new-age’ Chinese artists....
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An archaeologist’s view
The phrase ‘Islamic architecture in South Asia’ usually, but incorrectly, conjures up mental images of monuments that the Mughal emperors left to posterity. Indeed, such edifices as the world-renowned Taj Mahal...
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States of decay
This year’s Turner prize show has got the lot: inflatable doll, man-running-across-bridge political cartoon metaphor opportunity, eau-de-vie art hiccup, innocent childhood shattered in transvestite pottery outrage...
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Brave Afghan artists
Some months ago the Pakistan National Council of the Arts and Unesco joined hands to lay on an exhibition of the works of Afghan artists living in exile in this country....
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