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  • Mehbooba vows to shun Indian flag until J&K flag, special status are back

    KARACHI: In her first press conference after being released from detention of 14 months, the chief of Occupied Kashmir’s Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Mehbooba Mufti said she would raise the Indian flag only when Jammu and Kashmir’s (J&K) flag, constitution and special status (under Article 370) were restored...

    She categorically said that she would hold the Indian flag in her hands only when the J&K flag was back, pointing to the...

  • Five-day painting exhibition opens

    ISLAMABAD: A five-day exhibition titled ‘Occupying the Third Space’ was inaugurated at the Satrang Art Gallery by Australian High Commissioner to Pakistan Margaret Adamson on Wednesday...

    Her paintings depicted her generous understanding of universal artists, since her ‘Raising the Flag’ painting paid homage to Eugène Delacroix ‘Liberty Leading the People’ and her ‘Matriarchal Creation of Adam’ was a celebration of Michelangelo’s ‘The...

  • Poetry and painting

    But very rarely, especially in Pakistan, does one see a painter doing an exhibition paying tribute to Urdu poetry and exploring his subject by looking through two distinct creative lenses...

  • Exhibition: For the love of painting

    The paintings of the two participating artists on show, Uzma Sultan and Qadir Jhatial connect to the realm of a long tradition of painting, which despite equally strong traditions of innovation, experiment and subversion through new media, still sustains the creativity of the artist and the viewer...

    Fragmented, mutilated, rejected, painting reappears, sustained by the instinct to make, and to put the unspoken into form...

  • Painting the essence of life

    Bhatti is most well known for his figurative work which captured the beauty of each face in bold colours and the result always induced joy in the viewer...

    “Through my paintings I respond to the contradiction between traditional feudalism and the perceptions about democracy in Pakistan,” he added...

  • Painting the real expressions

    Inspired by an interview of veteran portrait painter, Saeed Akhter, she set a target of painting a hundred portraits when she was a student at the National College of Arts...

    But she is still practising as a whole-time visual artist, doing commissioned works and displaying her paintings in Pakistan and abroad rather than working as a computer professional...

  • Art exhibition turns spotlight on missing Frida Kahlo painting

    “Who can tell us what happened to the missing painting or where we can find it?” reads a sign next to a photo of Kahlo’s largest work, ‘The Wounded Table’, a mysterious surrealist masterpiece that vanished without a trace in Warsaw more than half a century ago...

    “I wrote that the painting was probably destroyed...

  • Painting the music within

    The figures themselves appear to be in the middle of a twirl and while he draws no faces or hands, the faces are almost there and it is after one has moved away from a painting one realizes that the impression of the dancer looking up was just that, an impression...

  • 37 youngsters take part in painting contest

    SAHIWAL: As many as 37 boys and girls participated in the district level painting competition held here on Monday at Jinnah Hall under the Chief Minster’s Talent Hunt Programme...

    The contestants were given two hours to make their painting either with water, oil or pastoral colours...

  • Gujranwala girl wins all Punjab painting contest

    LAHORE: Hina Amin from Gujranwala has won the All Punjab Painting Competition held under the Chief Minister Talent Hunt Programme, carrying a cash prize worth Rs0...

    The contest, titled Bano Pakistan Ki Pehchan, was organised at the City Heritage Museum, The Mall, by the Punjab Council of Arts and Information and Culture Department on Friday...

  • Mumtaz Hussain: making films & painting stories

    ”In his own words, Mumtaz Hussain’s style is that of fusion blending in elements from Pakistan, New York (where he lives), and Europe...

    But while Mumtaz has made around seven films in the last 15 years, and has also bagged prestigious awards for them, this time he plans to make a film and release it in Pakistan, using a Pakistani cast...

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