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Under the influence of the masters
 Naveed Ashkal, originally Naveed Akhtar, began his art education as a shagird of Iqbal Mehdi. From 1988 till 1994 he worked consistently in the Ustaad’s studio perfecting a representational style of work in the gruelling medium of pen and ink....
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Gone to pot
 Last year Grayson Perry won the Turner prize for his scratchy, ugly vandalisms of perfectly good vases. Perry uses a medium he has obvious contempt for, and is rewarded as if his crass reduction of thousands of years of beauty and imagination...
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Reviving the tradition
 In his Lahore ka Dabistaan-i-Mussaviri, Mohammed Abdur Rehman Chughtai narrates that ‘During the Sikh period, the population of Lahore comprised of Hindus, Sikhs and Muslims; the population multiplied by leaps and bounds...
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New kids on the block
 In a group show at a critical time of their artistic careers, four painters embark on a journey that started just two or three years after their graduation from the art...
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The dilettante tendency
 When Prince Albert established the South Kensington Museum (now the V&A) in 1857, the gentlemen amateurs who made up much of the curatorial staff cared little for specialist qualifications or levels of pay. Passion for a subject and a private income was all a Victorian curator required....
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Treasures of the Salt Range
 Not so long ago the only archaeological sites in Pakistan that the average educated man knew of were Moenjodaro, Harappa and Taxila. Of course there were numerous other sites too of...
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