Welcome to a generous selection of articles from DAWN's Weekly Gallery.
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Journey of the vessel
 The studio potter in Pakistan today stands at a privileged position, as he or she is the inheritor of a rich tradition of clay making dating as far back as the seventh Millennium BC in Mehrgarh....
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Face to face with...
 Throughout art history artists have documented their times by painting images of important people or a starker, realistic slice of life as lived by the poor in the slums of big...
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Focusing on young talent
 Art is a form of communication that reflects the times, the environment of the artist and aspects of humanity: love, despair, beauty, as well as expanding perceptions and introducing new realities....
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Women’s painter
 Someone described Khuda Bux Abro’s works as ‘pictorial journalism’. The action in his paintings and mixed-media works is topical enough in that he is predominantly concerned with issues such as the...
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Looking straight in the eye
 In the 1989 British TV mini-series Traffik — the lesser-known inspiration behind the Oscar-winning Hollywood production Traffic (2000) — actor, singer, screenwriter and artist Jamal Shah played an impoverished Pakistani poppy...
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A fertile field for crime
 In highly developed countries, culture is a very fertile field for crime. Taking just one example, the theft of a classic painting may put the owner to a loss of a...
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