Welcome to a generous selection of articles from DAWN's Weekly Gallery.
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Playing with twilight
 None of us can retrieve the innocence before all theory when art knew no need to justify itself, when one did not ask of a work of art what it said because one knew what it did....
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Thousand and one flights
 Experiencing the poetically entrancing video light and sound installation created by Kathy Hinde and Matthew Fairclough at Karachi’s VM Art Gallery recently was a de-stressing experience. After braving the home-going traffic...
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Capturing Thar
 ‘Photography is now an industry’ said one speaker at the inauguration of the Foto Mela held in Karachi recently. The number of photographers present at the gathering, as well as the...
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A free spirit
 Jamil Baloch has a special pathos for his roots, for where he comes from. His attitudes, beliefs, accent and outlook are very much a product of his life in his hometown...
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The sacred art
 From the very beginnings of Islam, the sacredness of the Arabic language played a central role in the development of the Arabic script and writing it came to be considered as...
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Ménage à trios
 Pen-and-ink, watercolour, and impasto oil paint — these were the means by which Omar Farid, Samina Raza and Shahnaz Adamjee, respectively, presented their creative and ideological approaches at their recent group...
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The visiting ceramist
 It was hot and humid in the A.R. Faridi Art Gallery at the Pakistan Arts Council, Karachi, where a talk by the visiting London-based ceramist Parveen Zuberi was organized by the...
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Unesco on Moenjodaro
 A new report quotes the federal Minister for Culture as saying that the government proposes to move Unesco to add three archaeological sites in the country to the World Heritage List,...
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