Welcome to a generous selection of articles from DAWN's Weekly Gallery.
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EMPORIUM: Why Art Dubai?
 Artists and galleries in Pakistan need to shed their insularity and avail of the change of perspective and spotlight on our region with the intention of establishing a more pronounced international presence, writes Salwat Ali....
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GLOBETROTTER: Brushing words into art
 My trip to Dubai last month was enriching in more ways than one. Apart from the opportunity to see some great, and some not so great pieces of work at Art Dubai, I got to see an exciting exhibition — Word into Art — put together by Venetia Porter, the curator of Islamic Collections at the Department of Asia at the British Museum, whose show it was....
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CAREER IN ART: Exploring times past
 In an intensely personal collection of twelve, large sized paintings shown recently at Canvas Gallery, Karachi, Shakeel Saigol recreated the world of his early memories — observed and imagined — of places and people seen through the eyes of a five year old child. Saigol was born in Calcutta in 1944....
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ARTISTS WORK: A gift of colour
 When suicide bombings, murder and mayhem become part of a people’s daily routine and the threat of mass violence looms over like an ominous dark cloud, art seems like a distant and irrelevant domain. But it is precisely during such tumultuous times that art and artists become the force that redeems a society in chaos.....
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ARTISTS WORK: Sonnets on canvas
 Mirza Khalid Baig’s journey of self-discovery has been long, eventful, rewarding and colourful. From reading and learning to writing prose and poetry; from experimenting with documentaries to various expressions in art. He painted portraits, notably those of the Quaid-e-Azam (which won him a special award....
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COLLECTOR’S CHOICE: It’s so cubed
 Most artists tend to deconstruct. Why? Why do they have to resort to roundabout ways to propagate ideas? If Pablo Picasso was asked such a question, he would have shrugged his shoulders and walked away Life is not as simple as pie. It is a can of worms.....
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