Arts & Crafts - 12

It is after almost a decade that Naeem Pasha has decided to exhibit some of the works he had been engaged with over the period of time and he had decided to do so at ‘The Art Gallery’ of Mubeena Zubairi. The exhibition will open on Friday (October 1) with a formal opening at 5:30pm. [...]

Being the abode of a heterogeneous society, Muscat is fast becoming the hub of happenings. An array of events continues to take place with the weekends starting to offer a multitude of activity and entertainment. One of the highlights of the coming weekend is going to be an art exhibition by talented Pakistani painter Shehla [...]

A Saudi folklore troupe enthralled hundreds of diplomats and general people at Islamabad’s Jinnah Convention Centre on Sunday. The 28-member troupe, four drummers and 24 dancers, especially flew into Pakistan to perform on the occasion of the 74th National Day of Saudi Arabia. Since entry to the show was open, a large number of people [...]

Plans to expand the Lahore Museum over an 11-kanal-area, construct several new galleries, establish a research department, install the latest security, temperature-control and ticketing systems were announced by the museum director, Gulzar Mashhadi, on Wednesday. The new galleries in the museum will include a section called the City Museum, to portray cultural items from Lahore, [...]

An exhibition titled ‘Ode to Lahore in Colour’ featuring pastel works and drawings by Aboo opened here at Croweaters Gallery on Monday. Over 20 works are on display at the show. Among these, ‘Summer heat,’ in pencil, ‘Spring time,’ in pastel and ‘Long and winding path of N Sharif Park’, were exceptionally dazzling. The artworks [...]

Museums are like people. They come in all shapes and sizes and one cannot always realise what is inside by their exterior. The recently inaugurated ‘Heritage Museum: The National Museum of Ethnology’ is no different. People might consider museum visits as monotonous, but inside the Heritage Museum, it is hard not to fall in a [...]

The federal archaeology department claims to have discovered rock-art sites near the Siachen Glacier, between the villages of Domsum and Gulshan-i-Kabin on the left bank of Saltoro river in the Lower Sheyole (Khaplu) valley. Khaplu is located in eastern Baltistan, some 103km away from Skardu. The engravings depicting animal and human figures and inscriptions on [...]

The Pakistan Calligraphic Artists Guild will hold an international calligraphy exhibition at the Alhamra Centre next month. A children’s festival and a workshop by foreign artists will also be arranged simultaneously, PCAG Senior Vice President told Daily Times on Tuesday. He said the PCAG had demanded the government set up a full-fledged calligraphy academy because [...]

As a curtain raiser for the three-day workshop starting September 24, a young lady, Beena Khan, a city-based journalist, was hypnotized by Dr Moiz Hussain at a local hotel on Friday evening. According to Prof Moiz, she was judged to be at the highest level of hypnosis, the sixth level, in the hypnotists’ parlance. Khan [...]

His business interests swing from jewellery to cuisine. Hands which once used to design Hyderabadi necklaces are now expert at prickle recipes. Twenty-nine-year-old Waqar Ahmed’s food business in Karachi’s Hyderabad Colony is a success story. ‘I started business in 1996,’ said Mr Ahmed, who runs Deccan Zaiqa House, one of 12 shops in the small [...]