Arts & Crafts - 10

The exhibition displayed the works of artists from Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka. Before the exhibition could be officially announced open, it was marred by a fracas between Rashida Reza, wife of Reza Kazimm an art patron, and the officials of the Alhamra Arts Council. Accompanying the legendary Indian artist M.F. Husain, Ms [...]

There was an exhibition of photographs titled ‘Borders and Beyond’ at the Shakir Ali Museum on Monday organised by the Swiss embassy in collaboration with the Pakistan National Council of Arts (PNCA). Tim Enderlin, the Swiss chief of embassy affairs, said that the aim of the exhibition was to portray some aspects of borders and [...]

The archaeology department’s preservation and restoration team has discovered eight antiquities consisting fragments including the sculpture of future Buddha, god Indra and his bodyguard dating back to the first century AD. The antiquities had been discovered during the preservation work at the ancient and world famous archaeological site of the Gandhara civilisation locally known as [...]

The renowned ‘Orfeon Chamber Choir’ from Ankara, Turkey, gave a charismatic performance at the Turkish embassy auditorium on Thursday evening to mark the 66th anniversary of the directive issued by Quaid-i-Azam to observe November 18 as ‘Kemal Day’ throughout the subcontinent. The performance started a little late because of the delayed arrival of Foreign Minister [...]

AWAIS Javed (22) fought with his parents. Mohammad Hanif (22) has put his plans of taking the civil services exam on hold. Rana Waqas Ahmed (22) juggles his lectures in physiotherapy with rehearsals. All this for theatre—and peace between India and Pakistan. Twenty-one students from various educational institutions in Lahore are in Mumbai—for the first [...]

The curves of her body are softly delineated in black ink; her head rests on a knee as the detailed lines of her hair spill down a leg. Copper plating used for her lips and wide eyes shifts the viewers’ focus to her expression, confronting them with a conflicting starkness of emotion. Pakistan-born artist Zulfiqar [...]

The two-week exhibition of water colour paintings titled ‘Street Scenes of Karachi and Sufis of Sindh’ by renowned Karachi-based painter Sarfraz Musawir opened at the Nomad Art Gallery on Tuesday. Thirty-two deftly drafted and aesthetically pleasing works depicting different landscapes of the famous streets and squares of Karachi, most of them drenched in rain water, [...]

His name might not have been recorded in history books, but a tiny bit of the Taj Mahal will always belong to Riaz-ud-din, a craftsmen from Pakistan. Belonging to a family that has spent generations cutting tiny pieces of precious stones to make patterns that decorate the walls of Lahore Fort, Red Fort as well [...]

An exhibition of paintings by Shahnaz Jafar Khan, portraying the pathetic condition of historic tombs, shrines the beauty of blue and aquamarine tiles works of Uch Sharif and old buildings of Rawalpindi done in water colours, opened at a private gallery in Islamabad on Sunday. This is the second time that Ms Khan has put [...]

A week-long art exhibition titled ‘Unilever National Art Project 2004′ to display artwork by students from across Pakistan, concluded at Alhamra Hall-III on Friday. The artwork was themed ‘Connecting and Communicating’. Artists were divided in three age categories; from 5 to 10 years, 11 to 14, and 15 to 18. Over 200 works of art, [...]