Welcome to a generous selection of articles from DAWN's Weekly Gallery.
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COLLECTOR’S CHOICE: Beyond the surface
 Shakeel Siddiqui’s objects are warm and bodied, curtains move, clothes retain the form of the wearer, bricks are weathered, and each composition tells a story, writes Marjorie Hussain An exhibition of recent paintings by Shakeel Siddiqui witnessed once again the uncanny trompe l’oeil quality of the artist’s work...
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ARTISTS WORK: Crossing the threshold
 The emerging profile of Pakistani contemporary art abroad has not just energised the art climate at home but has also brought greater immediacy to the hunt for the new and the exciting. In this chase for the novel and the radical much attention is now being lavished on school...
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MINIATURE: Practises what she teaches
 The exhibition of Dr Fatima Zahra’s exquisite miniatures, on the theme of Sufism, was held last month from the 18th to the 26th in Karachi’s Chawkandi Gallery, but the tumultuous events that followed soon after make one feel that the paintings were on display ages ago....
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CAREER IN ART: Watercolours and indigenous dreams
 What is it that confers true talent and creativity in a person? Is it nature or nurture? This question has been asked and pondered over from time immemorial and may never...
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ARTWART: A spiritual journey
 Portraying the ultimate spiritual and mystical experience, the painting exhibition by Mansoora Hassan at the Tanzara Gallery in Islamabad illustrates the need of a critique of visual culture that is alert to the power of images of good and evil and that is capable of discriminating the variety and historical specificity of its use....
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Exquisite glass works
 Alhmara Art Galleries in Lahore earlier this month. It was a fairly large exhibition comprising 103 objects d''art of various sizes.....
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