Portfolio: Local yet global
Recently, Aicon Gallery in York exhibited Monomania the first solo US exhibition of Karachi-based artist Adeel uz Zafar. The title of the exhibition summed…
Journey to change
In referencing N M Rashed, clay pots, paper boats, the river Ravi and the lost garment Saddri, Pakistani artist Sabah Husain creates a seamless…
Siavash Mahvis – Artist from Iran
“Siavash Mahvis” is a contemporary Iranian artist and a university professor. He owes his acquaintance with the world of line and design to realist…
Rebel Angel: An exhibition at Mohatta Palace Museum -starts May 18, 2011
REBEL ANGEL ASIM BUTT 1978-2010 Mohatta Palace Museum is hosting an exhibition of works by the late artist Asim Butt, commencing on Wednesday May…
In memoriam – Asim Butt (1978-2010)
But it was Asim’s venture into public art and his subsequent adoption of the Stuckist creed that turned him into a major figure at…
Rediscovering Zahoor ul Akhlaq (1941-1999)
Raza Rumi asks if Pakistani state and society are ready to reclaim the great artist on his tenth death anniversary Ten years ago, on…
Remembering Gulgee in different voices
It was Gulgee’s bad luck that he was murdered shortly before the country’s most popular leader Benazir Bhutto was assassinated. His sad end somehow…
Ali Kazim – ‘our very own success story’
“To look at one of Ali Kazim’s paintings is not only to look at something wonderful, something remarkable. It is also to look at…
Anandi Boiragi – the eclectic painter and an urban Baul
With legendary artist S.M. Sultan as his mentor, Anadi Kumar Boiragi from Jessore attended Khulna Art College in the late ’80s, before enrolling at…
Amrita Shergil’s Lahore
Khalid Hasan writing for the Friday Times: Amrita Sher Gil was once asked by Iqbal Singh, who was to write her biography 43 years…