Salman Toor runs the appalling risk of becoming a cult icon in his home country, a sad misfortune that has…
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Art Scene of Pakistan The Unwritten Chapter, by Rashid Arshed. Foreword by Salima Hashmi This is one of those sad…
Lahorenama in Karachi. The exhibition at Sanat Gallery titled Lahorenama -Behind the Scenes in an Artist’s Studio curated by the…
A Qur’an For Americans of Today, Presented by An American Artist of Today As a Muslim, the American Qur’an is…
A Good Curator Brings the Fireworks to a Show I’m a curator. And I have to confess I have not…
Ai Weiwei in Conversation with Ian Buruma at the Chicago Humanities Festival, April 2018 The Chicago Humanities Festival hosted a…
River in an Ocean, an exhibition curated by Abdullah Qureshi and Natasha Malik, took place from 20 – 31 March…
Artists cannot control what reviewers say about their art. Jonathan Jones writes in The Guardian of September 27, 2017 saying…
Takashi Murakami at Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago Takashi Murakami is an artist whose multilayered articulations and buoyancy as…
While the goal of rational, thoughtful artists from Pakistan remains the articulation of relevant concerns, some artists are producing art…