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Moving in all directions
 Held at the V.M. Gallery, Karachi, the work comprised the artists’s latest sculptures. Titled Direction, the collection was named for an important composition consisting of four panels carved to suggest movement by way of boats standing up-end. The four feet high wood pieces carved on each of the panels with the words ‘Enter’ and ‘Exit’ relate to recent foreign travels....
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A wandering soul
 Nuha Al-Radi was a remarkable person and an exceptional artist who was expert not only as a ceramist but also as a painter, portraitist, sculptor of found objects, and then latterly she took to writing. Hers was a remarkable eye with a sensibility and sensitivity which she could transcribe into pottery, paint or words. There are few who can do all of this simultaneously....
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The next big thing? There isn’t one
 The recent exhibition Being Present, which opened at the Jerwood Space in Southwark, a stone’s throw from Tate Modern, features eight figurative painters, most of whom have previously won prizes in the annual BP Portrait Award exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery. The NPG’s ex-director, Charles Saumarez Smith, now director of the National Gallery...
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Painting damaged surfaces
 In 93, the well known neo realistic painter Shakeel Siddiqui, about to take up a teaching post abroad, presented his sister Shaheen with a parting gift, the accoutrements of oil painting;...
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Exploring the past
 Artists have played an important role in history by painting monuments and great houses commissioned to illustrate the power of the affluent. Working independently, artists such as Gustave Dore left behind...
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Restoring heritage
 A truly exciting piece of news is that the restored Baltit Fort located at Karimabad in Hunza has been honoured with the coveted Unesco 2004 Asia-Pacific Heritage Award for culture...
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