Meet Pakistan’s Unlikely ‘Art Messiah’

A military leader is how the world views General Pervez Musharraf. But it is his taste for modern art that has begun to open up minds as well as drawing rooms in Pakistan. R.M. Naeem, a fine arts teacher at the National College of Art in Lahore, says the President’s interest in art has made it acceptable. If Musharraf has made the art market exciting in Pakistan, Indian artist Gopi Gajwani is thrilled about the contemporary themes …