KARACHI: Artists are a strange group of people. More often than not, their work begins on a personal note and by the time it finishes it assumes the kind of significance that relates to society at large. A group exhibition titled ‘Connections’ that began at the Canvas Art Gallery on Tuesday hints at this very […]
An exhibition of works by five artists opened at the Canvas art gallery on Tuesday at 5pm. The participating artists are Anum Ather Jamal, Fatima Munir, Hamida Khatri, Nilofer Kamruddin Kotadia and Rameez Rehman. The show, The Fantastic Frostings, will continue till March 14, from 11am to 8pm on a daily basis. Source: Dawn
KARACHI: Putting artworks of more than four dozen artists on display has its advantages and disadvantages. The big plus is that the viewer gets a wide variety of artists to know about and to understand how different techniques are employed to reflect on life. The negative aspect of it all is that since the number […]
The first-ever Islamabad Children’s Literature Festival (CLF) that concluded here on Saturday proved a huge success with leading writers, artists, singers, general public and thousands of students from public and private schools and colleges thronged the festival. More than 23,000 participants attended different sessions during the two-day festival. To inculcate the habit of reading into […]
KARACHI: Inspiring instrumentals, decent vocal performances and a bit of dance recital marked the first day of the two-day All Pakistan Music Conference on Friday evening on the National Academy of Performing Arts (Napa) premises. The first item of the 10th annual conference was a dance performance by Sheema Kermani’s students after which the music […]
KARACHI: Artworks by no fewer than 22 known artists are on display at the Koel Art Gallery. The exhibition titled ‘Summerscape 2013’ began at the Koel Art Gallery on Tuesday. Since it’s that time of year when art activities slow down, as even gallery owners and curators need a break, the show will last till […]
Conventionally speaking, a major difference between a painting and a photograph is that while the latter can be embellished with colours, applying special techniques to give it a special effect and improvise on the subject, a photograph just registers what is in front of the lens, just the way it is. The photographic image has […]
KARACHI: Capturing a moment to impart timelessness to it requires skill that does not solely depend on technical prowess but also relies heavily on the capturer’s aesthetic life view. The allusion is to the art of photography. Witnessing an exhibition of nine noted women photographers’ work titled ‘Kam Sukhan’ that began at the Indus Valley […]
LAHORE: Exhibition of five contemporary artists titled ‘Here and Now’ inaugurated on Monday at Lahore Art Gallery. Many artists and art lovers were present on the occasion. The exhibition included art works by Mohammad Ali Talpur, Hasnat Mehmood, Muhammad Zeeshan, Adeela Suleman and Nausheen Saeed. The artists are known worldwide and in Pakistan for specific […]
KARACHI: Lots of changes have taken place in each and every realm, each and every sphere over the ages which have been heralded as improvement, improvisation or advancement. Whether that really is so or is just a case of our preoccupation with the peculiar could be anybody’s guess. Art is no exception. While there was […]
KARACHI: They are young and ebullient. It is only two years back that they passed out from the Arts Council Institute of Arts and Crafts. What drives them in life is their creative urge to interpret nature as they see it. And it is precisely for this reason that an exhibition of their artworks attracted […]
KARACHI: A theatre play ‘Aapki Sonia’ by renowned Indian playwright Javed Siddiqui will be performed from June 14 at Southend Club, announced its director Aly Khan while speaking at a press conference on Friday. Aly Khan, who can these days be seen in quite a few TV plays, started his speech by telling the media […]
KARACHI: Judging from the nervousness of museum director Mohammad Shah Bukhari, one could understand the risk involved in putting on display the rare artifacts and ornaments. “It is for the first time that I am taking these out for the public at the National Museum of Pakistan,” the museum director told Dawn on Friday. The […]
ISLAMABAD: Lok Virsa, Ministry of National Heritage & Integration, here on Thursday created a cultural diorama on Saudi Arabia “Al-Ghadeer” at Pakistan National Museum of Ethnology (PNME). For this purpose, Lok Virsa has allocated a spacious hall of 30×30 feet within PNME, Heritage Museum for which artifacts were being contributed by the Government of Saudi […]
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