Arts & Crafts - 11

A 94-year-old pink palace modelled on the famous 18th century castle in Versailles in France formed the gracious backdrop to a three-day festival of music, dance and nostalgia as Indian artistes mingled with their Pakistani compatriots. “Accept it or not, we lost half our glory after partition. Most of our population went off to Pakistan, [...]

Alhamra Art Gallery will be flush with colour from November 23 to December 5 as it displays works by five South Asian masters and young contemporary artists. The painting exhibition, titled ‘Living legends, old masters and new voices’, will illustrate the development of art in Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal. The five million [...]

The Textile Department of the National College of Arts (NCA) is conducting a month-long workshop on the indigenous but endangered art of dyeing clothes with colours extracted from fruits and vegetables. The college has invited two craftsmen from Sindh to conduct the workshop participated in by second and third-year students. Sajida Vandal, the NCA principal, [...]

The Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) art gallery at The Mall launched a dress exhibition titled ‘Fashions of Winter’ on Thursday. The YMCA art gallery has been around for four years and has held several exhibitions but the ongoing dress exhibition is the first of its kind at the gallery, John Shaffaq, the general secretary [...]

The National College of Arts (NCA) has started new of six-month courses in animation and video production in collaboration with French art institution Ecole-d’ Art. A German and an American teacher have been hired for the course. TV producer Shaukat Zainul Abidin, writer Asghar Nadeem Syed, former Ptv Lahore general manager SM Anwar and Faryal [...]

A unique exhibition of calligraphy in ceramics and pottery by well known artist, Dabir Ahmed, was inaugurated at ‘The Art Gallery’ on Monday evening. Dabir, who graduated from the National College of Arts (NCA) in 1966 and then adopted a teaching career at the same institution from 1976 till the time he retired as the [...]

When Gino Marotta, the famous Italian artist, confesses that his unrestrainable curiosity makes him unable to resist the calls of new opportunities which arise from any new material or mental stimulus, his artwork, which was put to exposition at the Amin Gulgee Gallery on Saturday, endorses his confession vividly. And Laura Fioretta, Cultural AttachÈ at [...]

An exhibition of paintings by old and new artists in oil, water, pastel and acrylic opened at the Coopera Art Gallery on Thursday. There were over 100 pieces of art on display at the exhibition, including by established artists such as Dr Ijaz Anwar, Ghulam Rasool, Mehboob Ali, Rahat Naveed Masood and Muhammad Javed, the [...]

An exhibition of political cartoons by Mohammad Zahoor opened at the French Cultural Centre here on Tuesday. The exhibition was organized by Alliance Francaise in collaboration with Daily Times , the newspaper Mr Zahoor is presently working with. The originals of more than 40 cartoons drawn by Mr Zahoor, which have been published in the [...]

An exhibition of photographs and iron pictures by Chinese artists will open at the Shakir Ali Museum on Monday in connection with the 55th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China. The exhibition will be organised by the Pakistan National Council of Arts (PNCA) in collaboration with the Chinese Embassy. Some iron [...]