The exhibition Manzar thrives on its transnational public sphere, engaging audiences across diverse languages and perspectives. Featuring an impressive curatorial team, the show explores Pakistan’s 75-plus-year history of art and architecture, grappling with deep-rooted questions of identity: What is Pakistani…
Curated by Waheeda Baloch, the fourth Karachi Biennale titled ‘رزق | Risk --- Food, Futures & Fair Practices’, foregrounds socio-economic and political complexities surrounding local and global food systems and traditional dietary customs, and their entanglement with human practices, culture, heritage,…
Art historian and critic Nageen Jawaid Shaikh and academic, researcher, and actor Tazeen Hussain interview art interventionist, author, and CEO Karachi Biennale: Niilofur Farrukh. The conversation is a part of the public initiative “Writers and Readers Cafe” (#78), at the…
I meet fashion designer and artist Misha Japanwala on a cool Sunday afternoon in a fully packed coffee shop in Karachi. We are here to talk about her developing creative practice and I have lots of questions about her audacious…
Himalayan Art in 108 Objects is an informative introductory survey of art and visual culture in the Himalayas (Tibet, Bhutan, China, India, Pakistan) connected temporally and spatially through dynamic cross-cultural and material exchanges, literatures, and religious beliefs, with Tibet and…
“My grandfather says that’s what books are for,” Ashoke said, using the opportunity to open the volume in his hand. “To travel without moving an inch.” Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake14 The two-thousand-year-old remarkable tradition of books in South Asia…
Stuff. Everywhere the eye goes, there is a plethora of ‘stuff’. Gleaming and lucratively packaged in mammoth shopping malls, hoarded up in our home-stores and attics, or trashed on our streets, all types of stuff is ubiquitous now. We are…
I was reading Robert Louis Stevenson a few nights ago. His poem Requiem, reads: “This be the verse you grave for me Here he lies where he long'd to be Home is the sailor, home from sea And the hunter home from the hill”.43 Ruby Chishti’s works…
Manuscript making and illumination in the Indian Mughal courts has been a well-recognized high-art form in South Asia between the fifteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Emperors, such as Akbar (b.1542-1605) and Shah Jahan (b.1592-1666), frequently posed on terraces of their…
I struggle to find the right distance, The in-between space Neither too close nor too far away will she be safe A dwelling will be located for her By her And if they still dress her up as them She…
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