The author is an art critic based in Lahore
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
In her new show, Aisha Khalid turns the language of miniature painting into a subtle act of defiance
New exhibition at Doha’s Mathaf Museum gathers artists who confront censorship, conflict and exile
A long-overlooked artist resurfaces through a major retrospective at Lahore’s COMO Museum
Sara Riaz Khan translates silence and memory into visual language
At 79, the Sukkur-based painter remains one of Pakistan’s most quietly profound modernists
Ijaz ul Hassan’s Sketchbook explores decades of witnessing, travelling and reflecting
