Buzkashi – the ancient game continues…
Further to yesterday’s post, I am reproducing this image from Saira Wasim’s website – this is a powerful painting and says it all. Titled…
Saira Wasim’s Art
ATP has published my post on Saira Wasim’s extraordinary art: Saira Wasim is a prominent Pakistani miniaturist. I found a link to her website…
Miniature painting – the global traumas narrated by Saira Wasim
Saira Wasim is a prominent Pakistani miniaturist. I found a link to her website hidden in my unread emails. Some of her recent paintings…
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…
Dalrymple on gods and monsters
In an era when most British officials were interested only in exploiting India, a few remarkable men celebrated Hindu art and culture. William Dalrymple…
Islamic Spain: History’s refrain
Alexander Kronemer writes: “At its peak, it lit the Dark Ages with science and philosophy, poetry, art, and architecture. It was the period remembered…
Art as hope – paintings on Southern Thailand
Pearapong Khireewong is an extremely talented artist who hails from Southern Thailand and has captured the pathos of the bullets that were sprayed on…
Edited – Parallel Lines: Photographs by Isa Daudpota
“Isa Daudpota is an engineer and physicist by profession. He is keenly interested in art, mathematics and computers. He writes frequently on science, information…
Amrita Shergil – the immortal artist
I only wish that I could visit the Tate Modern in London to experience the sheer beauty of Amrita Shergil‘s work. She lived a…
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…
Another image of Amrita Shergil’s work
This is a rich, sensuous and haunting work capturing the mood of 1930s (perhaps) and telling the story in a Western format adapted by…
On Gandhara Art
The Buddhist art of Gandhara influenced Indian art and sensibilities and also that of the entire Buddhist world. Read more here . Pakistan is celebrating the Gandhara week that will end…
Striking Prints from a young Pakistani artist
I finally got hold of the digital images of some lovely prints by Samar Ataullah – a graduate of the National College of Arts,…
Sonargaon – A poem by HUR
HUR left this poem on my blog in response to my post on Bangladesh and Bengali art. This is a moving poem with tender…
Mughal Princess Zebunnissa – Lady of the age
Mughal history ignores women of the empire, including Emperor Aurangzeb’s daughter Zeb-un-Nissa: patron of the arts, poet, and a keeper of several lovers –…
Iqbal Hussain – Lahore’s controversial artist
Iqbal Hussain from Lahore is one of the finest painters we have. Most of his paintings depict women from the Heera Mandi (literally the…
VIEW: The global artist
VIEW: The global artist – Saleem H Ali It is a refreshing mark of our times that artists are being engaged at such forums…
The art of gimmickery
Eastern art sells out to the West By Murad Khan Mumtaz From the weekly Friday Times, Pakistan 11-17, 2006 ‘Contemporary miniature’ painting seems to…
War and Dialogue – Imagining Ourselves
Tune in now to our latest exhibit, ‘War & Dialogue’, where we take you beyond the headlines and show you how war is affecting…
Imagining Ourselves – War and Dialogue
Imagining Ourselves (IO) is a global online exhibit featuring art, photographs, essays and film by young women in their 20s and 30s asking them…