Pakistani market for visiting artists
With a number of artists from Bangladesh regularly exhibiting in Karachi and Lahore, Salwat Ali examines the reasons for this influx of visiting artists in Pakistan...
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Critical Space: Recycling the mechanical image
Photography in the electronic and print medium has added another layer of fantasy and reality to our visual experience in Pakistan. In recent years, the contemporary...
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Designing lifestyles
Contemporary design has come to play an important role in our daily lives. Encompassing objects of everyday use as well as cutting edge technological tools...
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Examining frames of reference
Visiting Sumaya Durrani at the Textile Institute of Pakistan, about 40 kms out of Karachi where she is currently artist in residence, was an invigorating experience....
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Bridging western and Indian art
Recently I received a catalogue of an auction at Bonham’s of New Bond Street, London, where one of Francis Newton Souza’s paintings titled: `Last Growl from the Cross’....
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Chronicles of an art school
The Official Chronicle of Mayo School of Art is the labour of love of the National College of Arts (NCA) Archives Department. The project was launched in 2000...
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Miniaturists address vital issues
In conjunction with the South Asian Heritage Month of May in Toronto, the South Asian Gallery of Art (SAGA) presented for the first time in Canada works....
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Gandhara Calling: Some neglected structures
The cultural heritage, so far as buildings are concerned, does not merely comprise historical monuments and royal forts and grand mausoleums but also...
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