Stark viewpoints, disturbing aspects
It was an optimistic omen to welcome as the first exhibition of the New Year in Karachi, a superb collection of paintings by Iqbal Hussain. At his best he is great, and in his latest paintings, exhibited at the Canvas Gallery, the artist reveals the numerous facets of the maestro as well as his subjects....
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A city museum
The city of Lahore is a repository of history and cultural heritage left behind by successive dynasties and the people of different generations and races since nearly 3,500 years....
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Emotional outbursts
The city of her youth and her childhood is Sialkot. It was Rakhshanda’s love for drawing and painting that brought her to Lahore. “Rakhshanda would go home at weekends to look...
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Futuristic outlooks
Considered to be a vital activity in society, communication designing requires more than artistic insight and ethical concerns. It looks at practices and values and their implications, the conditions of society...
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Tabinda’s rudimentary expressions
A painting lives in two different worlds — the mental or spiritual, and the physical — at one and the same time. Often one aspect is dominant while the other is diffused....
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Lush colours and spontaneous impressions
The contrasting moods and colours of two group art exhibitions in Karachi, emboldened art enthusiasts to face the traffic and work in progress, to feast their eyes....
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Miracle-warriors of Taxila
Some years ago Lok Versa, which is the Urdu name of the National Institute of Folk Heritage, arranged a display of working on stone by the master sculptor from Taxila who carves replicas of Gandhara art....
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