Welcome to a generous selection of articles from DAWN's Weekly Gallery.
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Making a career in Art
 In Pakistan, a developing third world nation, career opportunities in the visual arts are not as well defined or clearly categorised as they are in the medical, engineering or management sciences....
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A learning experience
 Giving a soft landing to fresh graduates, V. M. Gallery’s ‘Emerging Talent’ exhibition in Karachi focuses entirely on selected thesis works of current degree projects. Instituted in 2003...
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Of women and other things
 Objectification of women is an accepted idea in many conservative societies and though different sub-societies and sub-cultures within a particular society might employ different....
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Miniature Aesthetics
 To what extents have contemporary miniaturists been able to expand on the issues and aesthetics of their medium? Have they been able to synthesise from a language of the past...
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Cataloguing Islamic Art
 How does one ‘review’ the book Timeline History of Islamic Art and Architecture? Each time one sits down to do so one is transported into a world of images and colours...
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Capturing poetic expressions
 Samreen Asif’s unique exhibition of paintings at Nomad Art Gallery, Islamabad brings together a beautiful merger of voice and vision. Samreen’s paintings based on Parveen Shakir’s poetry....
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A scintillating merger
 Abrar Ahmad’s luxuriant fusion of traditional and contemporary work displayed in his 10th solo exhibition in Islamabad at Nomad Art Gallery beguiled the art connoisseurs to women’s world....
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Sacred texts reveal a Common Heritage
 For the first time, the oldest and most precious surviving texts of the Jewish, Christian and Islamic faiths have gone on display side by side at the British Library. They include a tattered scrap....
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