ISLAMABAD: The market for art has degenerated, said artist, curator and art critic Quddus Mirza who was delivering a talk at the Satrang gallery here on Wednesday. The speaker was critical of commercial art and described it as prostitution. Students from both private and public schools, including the National College of Arts (NCA) Rawalpindi, faculty […]
KARACHI: An exhibition of artworks, When the Land Escapes, by Aamir Habib and Taqi Shaheen opens at Koel art gallery on Thursday at 5pm. The show provides a personal interpretation of how paradox of land can be translated into multi-dimensional visual mediums. The exhibition will be open till Sept 16. Dawn
By: Anil Datta It is an exhibition that is a pleasant departure from the current trends in avant-garde schools of art, steeped in brain teasing abstractionism. All the 25 paintings adorning the walls of Chawkandi Art are representative of the realistic impressionism school of art. The paintings are a vivid representation of the various facets […]
By: Peerzada Salman KARACHI, Sept 4: Members of the US-based band Cultures in Harmony and faculty and students of the National Academy of Performing Arts’ music department played delightful compositions, both notated and improvised, at a concert organised by the academy’s Society for Music and Repertory Theatre at the Pakistan Institute of International Affairs auditorium […]
KARACHI: An exhibition of paintings by Hanif Shehzad opens at the Chawkandi Art gallery on Tuesday at 5.30pm. The show will remain open till Sept 11. Dawn
By: Idrees Bakhtiar KARACHI: Not all Gandhara artefacts confiscated a few months ago in Karachi are counterfeit, a final report by the Archaeological Department of Sindh has concluded. At least 161 items, out of 395, have been found to be genuine antiquities, some of them 2,000 years old, and are worth billions of rupees, the […]
BY: ALTAF ASEEM AFTER the 18th Amendment, archaeological sites and monuments have been handed over to the ministry of culture, government of Sindh. The people of Sindh were extremely concerned about the speedy decay of the sites’ historical monuments. Since the provincial culture department has become the custodian of the heritage, people’s expectations are overwhelmingly […]
By: Saadia Qamar KARACHI: Canvas Gallery opened its doors for five artists, namely Abid Aslam, Manisha Jiani, Seher Naveed, Maria Khan and Shiblee Munir, who incorporate meditation into their work and convey it though their drawings. The group show is titled ‘Drawing Mandalas’ and exhibits 18 various kinds of art work. From ring on wasli […]
ISLAMABAD: A singing contest of traditional Sufi and spiritual poetry was held at Shakarparian under the aegis of Lok Virsa (National Institute of Folk and Traditional Heritage) and Mehergarh NGO. Twelve singers, who were selected at an audition, performed in front of audience and a jury. Three best singers were awarded cash prizes by the […]
By: Peerzada Salman KARACHI: An interesting perspective on how art journalists use the electronic media to have and convey a better understanding of the subject was given by Indian journalists Sahar Zaman and Dhiraj Singh at an event titled ‘Art and the airwaves’ at T2F on Saturday evening. Ms Zaman, who is also a newscaster, […]
By: Saadia Qamar KARACHI: Friday evening at The Second Floor (T2F) proved to be a rather dazzling affair, where the quartet from Cultures in Harmony performed with sisters Zoe and Rachel Viccaji. The NGO aims to promote cultural understanding through music and was founded by an American musician, William Harvey. The Viccaji sisters performed several […]
By: NADEEM ZUBERI The collection of paintings portraying various messages through soft expressions of poetry, masterly skills and naturalism in a solo show by Zebun Zuby at Majmua Gallery, Karachi is an interpretation of remarkable poetry by some of the eminent poets of Urdu literature. The hidden themes in poetry are painted in a pleasant […]
By: Z Ali HYDERABAD: Bagrani villagers rejoiced on Friday as a Badin court convicted 65 men for illegally occupying an archaeological site believed to date to the Mughal era. Devri jo Daro or mound of the top, is located around 17 kilometers away from Matli taluka and coins with Arabic inscriptions have been found here. […]
By: Peerzada Salman KARACHI: It was a bit of an anomaly listening to a classic Philip Glass composition and a popish song in which a girl is trying to discover herself one after the other, but it worked to a great extent. Music lovers were treated to some sublime (and not so sublime) songs at […]
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