By Sehrish Ali ISLAMABAD: As political games unravel before the imminent elections, a group of artists has undertaken to mock the situation with satire. Titled “All puns end with guns”, an exhibition featuring five upcoming artists opened at Rohtas Gallery on Thursday. Each artist tackles the scenario with tangible zest, remaining seamlessly relevant. The gallery’s […]
Peerzada Salman KARACHI: Great writers see ahead of their time, therefore their writings have an air of timelessness about them. Sadat Hasan Manto and Rajinder Singh Bedi are two of Urdu’s foremost storytellers. The National Academy of Performing Arts’ stage productions of Manto’s short story ‘Badhshahat Ka Khatma’ and Bedi’s play ‘Naql-i-Makani’ — both directed […]
Anil Datta Karachi: Landscapes, still life, abstracts, semi-abstracts and others – they were all there, on exhibition and, subsequently, for sale; all the walls of the Grandeur Art Gallery were studded with artworks. To be exact, there were 42 of them – all forms of art: vintage works and more recent ones, adorning the walls […]
Anil Datta Karachi: A collage of buildings with a surreal touch, including a church, a mosque, and a Mandir—-This is Tabinda Chinoy’s vision of a society embedded in tolerance and harmony. Tabinda just doesn’t paint at random. Her paintings are a projection of her sublime dreams. She longs for a society where all religions happily […]
ISLAMABAD – The folk festival ‘Lok Mela’ organised by Lok Virsa (National Institute of Folk & Traditional Heritage) is now becoming the talk of the town, as more and more people are keep pouring in to witness the event with all its festivities. Enthusiasts, who seem to have been exhausted from the hot summer days […]
By Arsalan Haider LAHORE: Watercolour paintings by 16 artists from Karachi and Lahore featured at Coopera Art Gallery here on Tuesday. Several renowned artists, art teachers, students and art lovers thronged to the gallery on the first day. The exhibition displays around 73 art works by nine artists of Karachi and seven from Lahore. The […]
The hit theatre show based on the hit TV series takes a bow in Karachi Yes, Aangan Terrha – brought to you in association with Geo TV and Jang Group – became the first play in the history of Karachi to run for 100 days straight. It has come to my knowledge that Janam Janam […]
Peerzada Salman KARACHI: An exhibition of renowned artist Nahid Raza’s latest body of work opened at the Canvas Art Gallery on Tuesday evening. Nahid Raza has proven credentials as one of Pakistan’s leading woman artists. Her exploration of female condition, sometimes dubbed feminism, and her figurative paintings have been discussed and admired to death. Recently […]
KARACHI: In a brief but enlightening lecture, German archaeologist Dr Ute Franke touched on the historical and archaeological links that exist between Herat and Pakistan’s province of Balochistan. The lecture titled ‘Antiquities of Herat with Special Reference to Balochistan’s Artifacts in Sindh’ was organised by the culture department of the Sindh government at the National […]
ISLAMABAD: The ongoing folk festival of Pakistan “Lok Mela” being held at Shakaparian under the aegis of Lok Virsa (National Institute of Folk and Traditional Heritage) is drawing in a large number of visitors, fascinated by the truck art presented here. In the beautiful cultural pavilions erected at the festival, master craftsman Habib-ur-Rehman is seen […]
Saher Baloch KARACHI, April 14: It was one event where grown-ups were excitedly sifting through a comic book, while the children looked on blankly. The tales of Umru Ayyar, the famous vagabond, have once again been revived by a team of young entrepreneurs known as Kachee Goliyan. But this time around, Umru’s character is not […]
KARACHI: It seems like the under fire National Academy of Performing Arts (Napa) is finally spreading its wings. After the success of a 20-day performing arts festival, Napa held a press conference to invite all Karachiites once again for two back-to-back plays directed by veteran actor-director Khalid Ahmed. They call this project the “double bill”. […]
Peerzada Salman KARACHI, April 11: Some art lovers harbour the notion that ceramists try to explore the various aspects of the sense of a touch, or tactile sense, through artistic pursuits. It is not right. They only experience it to the extent that an ordinary individual does. What distinguishes them from the rest of us […]
KARACHI: The Napa Repertory Theatre will present two plays Badshahat Ka Khatma (based on Sadat Hasan Manto’s story) and Rajinder Singh Bedi’s Naql-i-Makani, both directed by Khalid Ahmed, from April 18. The double bill will run every week from Thursday to Sunday till May 5. This was announced by the Repertory Theatre’s artistic director Zain […]
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