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…

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…

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…