By: Sher Khan LAHORE: With a perfect blend of Punjabi folk and western blues in their debut track Daru Di Botal, East Side Story made its way into the spotlight earlier this year. The Lahore-based band has been anything but conventional and ordinary with its music. The duo is now back with its new single […]
HYDERABAD: Sindh Minister for Culture Sassui Palijo has said that her ministry is planning to gradually convert Bhit Shah into an international cultural city. Plans to establish the Institute of Research and Music Academy and an art gallery depicting seven ‘surs’ (themes) of Shah Abdul Latif Bhitai’s poetry in the historical town were steps in […]
Hyderabad: The provincial Culture Department has completed its three development schemes that would be inaugurated in next three to four days. According to details revealed by Provincial Secretary Culture Abdul Aziz Uqaili, a scheme of renovation of Shah-Jo-Bagh would be inaugurated by Chief Minister Sindh on December 30 at 4pm, while inauguration ceremony of another […]
By: Peerzada Salman KARACHI: Gardens primarily symbolise two things: a personal space where one can find solace and can be at ease in feeling submissive; and the creation whose creator sits somewhere invisible to the naked eye and allows things to bloom or shrivel. Over the years artists and writers have used the garden metaphor […]
KARACHI: The difficulty with painting intangible things, such as the soul, is that it requires a certain high degree of imaginativeness to make the viewer feel as if the subject has a tactile quality to it. This is where the line between the tangible, the known and the undiscovered and the unknown lose its blurriness […]
A solo exhibition of a Dubai-based artist Rahat Ismail Qavi opens at the Grandeur art gallery on Thursday at 5pm. The show will continue till Jan 2, daily from 11am to 8pm. Dawn
KARACHI: An exhibition of paintings by Laila Rahman opens at the Koel art gallery on Thursday at 5pm. The show titled “The Reckoning in the Garden” will continue till Jan 5, 2013, daily from 11am to 8pm. Dawn
KARACHI: An exhibition of photographs to mark the 5th death anniversary of Benazir Bhutto, organised by the culture department of Sindh, opened at the National Museum of Pakistan on Wednesday. The black and white and colour pictures of the assassinated politician and visionary adorn the walls on the first floor of the museum. A reasonable […]
By: Shoaib Ahmed LAHORE: The month of January will bring a series of cultural events for the art loving people of Lahore. Giving a grand reception to 2013, two arts councils — provincial and federal — are all set to entertain Lahorites with some quality evenings featuring artistes from Lahore and other areas of Punjab. […]
ISLAMABAD: It may not seem the most obvious setting, but a squat building overlooking a slum is home to one of the country’s leading galleries, which for 30 years has defied dictatorships and extremists to champion cutting-edge art. Rohtas Gallery was founded in 1981, at the height of military ruler Gen Ziaul Haq’s martial law, […]
KARACHI: Arif Hasan is an architect, urban planner and social thinker of undisputed credentials. Over the years, he has been involved in many a project related to urban planning, including the ambitious and large-scale Orangi Pilot Project. His profound interest in Pakistan’s, especially Karachi’s, colonial past, its development and its post-partition architectural mishmash has inspired […]
An exhibition of Lahore Museum’s Artifacts on Christian themes was inaugurated jointly by Rt. Revd. Irfan Jamil, Bishop of Lahore and Rt. Revd. Dr Alexander John Malik, Bishop Emeritus of Lahore in Gandhara Art Gallery of the Museum on Monday. The exhibition will remain open till January 6, 2013 from 9:00am to 4:00pm except Fridays. […]
By: Shazia Hasan KARACHI: On the eve of the official birth anniversary of Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah, Sindh Madressatul Islam University (SMIU) held an exhibition that again brought up the old controversy about the Father of the Nation being born on Oct 20, 1875, and not Dec 25, 1876. Besides displaying the schools founder Hassanally […]
KARACHI: An exhibition in connection with the 136th birth anniversary of Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah opened at the National Museum of Pakistan on Monday. As usual, the exhibits include some very important original documents from the freedom movement as well as objects that were either in use of the Quaid-i-Azam or were presented to him. […]
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