The painter-crusader
Jimmy Engineer’s studio is a beautiful old white wedding-cake structure gleaming in an avenue of weathered houses. He seldom entertains visitors as he works late at night, and to show me around, he took a morning off from his busy schedule....
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Brush with a pen
When man is deep in thought or in the midst of a dilemma, he will unconsciously move his finger to draw circles or lines and keep on doing so until his...
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Sixer it was
The residency created quite a stir in the art circle through lectures, meetings and workshops at art institutes. Somehow six weeks seem insufficient to grapple with an alien culture, work in a new environment, translate one’s experiences into art and then expose and explain oneself to an unfamiliar audience....
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Class of 2003
Unlike some previous post-graduation shows of modern miniature where the tacky and the clumsy intermingled freely with the bold and the experimental, the current “Class of 2003” display at the Canvas...
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What happened to Buddhism
I have always wondered why there are so few relics of the Buddhist age in India. In fact there are many more in Pakistan than in the land which was...
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Lahore Fort tile work
The mosaic-tile work of the Lahore Fort is unique. It is the only example of human and animal figurative work publicly displayed during the Muslim rule in the subcontinent. Secondly, the...
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