The author is an art critic based in Lahore
A major drawing show in Lahore revisits the medium as both method and meaning
The divide between idea and form has long shaped how art has been understood
Across centuries, artists have continued to return to the night as a space of imagination
Art has never captured time; it has always reshaped it
Failure has frequently proved the hidden engine of artistic innovation
The question is not only why violence fascinates art, but what position the artist takes when representing it
The art of writing by hand resists becoming a relic of the machine age
Muhammad Ali Afzal’s untitled canvases at Ocean Art Galleries reject art-world jargon and market expectations
At Urdu Worlds in Dubai, Zarina and Ali Kazim explore the widening divide between Urdu and English
Iqbal Hussain took lived experience and turned it into defiant art
Pakistan’s artists have re-worked shared histories into new visual languages
In The Enterprise, Aamir Habib turns memory into unsettling sculptural forms
Post-colonial amnesia, not talent, has frequently determined whose work endures in art history
In Salima Hashmi’s Open Studio, art becomes a way of holding on to the fragile work of remembering
A posthumous exhibition of Colin David’s drawings reveals how works on paper can stand as complete in their own right
Jamil Baloch’s latest works trace resistance across history and form
Two exhibitions brought artists and architects together, reimagining material possibilities
Rem Koolhaas reimagines the book as a living bridge between civilisations and the human urge to remember
Rabeya Jalil’s latest work reveals an artist intent on peeling away the world’s pleasing surfaces
Nusra Latif Qureshi and Talha Rathore explore the charged lines that bind past to present
