KARACHI: A gaggle of students gathered at the Sadequain Gallery at Frere Hall on Friday afternoon for the launch of the ‘Aisa Bhi Hai Pakistan’ exhibit and show off their work. Organised by a group called Unique Pakistan, the event features a display of photographs submitted by amateur photographers throughout the country. Another display holds […]
By: Peerzada Salman KARACHI: Artists in Pakistan have become prolific. This is a good sign simply because even if a small amount of quality work comes out of a lot of artworks being produced at a fair clip, it will hold Pakistani art in good stead for the time to come. It is important that […]
By: Peerzada Salman KARACHI: In our part of the world, art is not usually seen as a subject that can be readily lumped with philosophy or philosophical concepts. For example, cubism may be defined with certain interpretive textual connotations but it primarily remains a domain of visual art. Therefore those who try and fuse the […]
KARACHI: An exhibition of artworks by Sabiha Nasar-ud-Deen, A.S. Rind, Henri Souffay, Nisar Ahmad and Mehtab Ali opens at the Grandeur art gallery on Thursday at 5pm. The show will continue till Nov 25, daily from 11am to 8pm. Dawn
KARACHI: It is never easy to be a self-taught artist and then carve a niche for yourself in the world of art. This becomes all the more significant in Pakistan’s context where art and artists are seldom appreciated the way they merit. A three-day exhibition of photographs titled ‘Voices of the Soul’ by a young […]
By: Peerzada Salman KARACHI: A rocking performance by singer Sanam Marvi and a fine piece of jugulbundi between sitar player Ustad Nafees Ahmed Khan and tabla nawaz Ustad Bashir Khan were the highlights of the final day of the fifth music festival organised by the Arts Council of Pakistan Karachi at the council’s open air […]
Karachi: The three-day music festival that got off to a rollicking start on Friday, the 9th of November, continued into its second day, performing to a packed open-air theatre of the Arts Council. It was a display not only of the keen enthusiasm that the Karachiites have for music but also the tremendous pool of […]
LAHORE: The four-day 11th Mystic Music Sufi festival concluded on Sunday night amidst gaiety, fun and a lot of Sufi symphonies. There was fairly a good audience on the last day of the event. Jackets, sweaters and shawls were order of the night as Rafi Peer Cultural Complex is located at an open place with […]
By: Peerzada Salman KARACHI: The fifth three-day music festival organised by the Arts Council of Pakistan kicked off on a rather prolonged note as a long list of performers, most of whom relatively new to the music scene, delayed the arrival of the established names for a couple of hours at the council’s open air […]
LAHORE: Rural landscapes and indigenous trees and birds were prominent at an exhibition on Saturday of the best works ever to go on display at Royaat Art Gallery. Forty one pieces by 24 Pakistani artists, including renowned maestros and rising stars, were on display at the Best of Royaat exhibition. “We have introduced some great […]
New art season will start at the Revivers Galleria from Saturday evening with solo paintings exhibition of Karachi-based well-known artist Salman Farooqi. Titled “Reflection”, the art work display will continue for a fortnight till November 25. The gallery will remain open on Sunday, November 11, also for the benefit of the artists, art lovers and […]
By: Peerzada Salman KARACHI: An exhibition of Allama Iqbal’s personal belongings and photographs in connection with the poet’s 135th birth anniversary began at the National Museum of Pakistan on Friday morning. There is a decent variety of historical objects on display, some of which relate to Iqbal’s creative endeavours and others to his personal life. […]
By: M.B. Kalhoro LARKANA: The National Fund for Moenjodaro (NFM) has given the go-ahead to a Rs283 million development scheme for the 5,000-year-old city, which includes preparation of a master plan and dry core drilling at the site to help decode hitherto undecipherable language of the people of yore. The decision was taken by the […]
By: Peerzada Salman KARACHI: When human relationships are studied in art, that is, through paintings or sculptures, they impart an added flavour of literature to the artworks. This happens because essentially, as the cliché goes, all art reflects life, and minus relationships life is nothing but a still picture with no objects in it. Artist […]
” 
” 
” 
” 
” 
