Arts & Crafts - 5

This week’s chance discovery of new historical treasures near Harappa in Pakistan’s Punjab province comes as a powerful reminder of the country’s prospects for revisiting what some consider its rich historical legacy. While Pakistan may be just 57 years old, its history dates back to an era much before that. And yet, the country chooses [...]

The road on which Koocha-i-Saqafat was held was divided into three parts. Those who came from the Arts Council roundabout first entered the art centre where paintings, specimen of calligraphy and sculptures were on display. The second section of Koocha-i-Saqafat comprised a book bazaar where a few booksellers offered huge discounts – up to 33 [...]

Leading Swedish-based retailer IKEA is keen to import household items worth Euro 100 million 9US$130 million) during the next fiscal year. The Export Promotion Bureau (EPB) and IKEA, in the meanwhile are jointly organizing EPB-IKEA conference at Karachi and Lahore on May 17 and 19, respectively. The EPB has advised companies engaged in manufacturing home [...]

Based on the topic, ‘Find Yourself,’ Quratul Ain has created free forms that have metallic surfaces embellished with thumb pins to produce the effect of movement. Most of her work is figurative and stylised. Both the artists are conscious of the difficulties that they may encounter in pursuing a career as sculptors but are determined [...]

Lubna’s painting ‘Crows and Windows,’ recently won ‘Best in Show’ at the 2005 Sanctuary Art exhibit, a juried art show sponsored by the Massachusetts Audubon Society at the Moose Hill Wildlife Sanctuary Gallery, for her reflection of personal connection to nature and the meaning of ‘Sanctuary.’ Ms. Agha has been in the U.S. for more [...]

The Lahore Museum will borrow artefacts from the Lahore Fort to display at its new Sikh section. The donations include miniature paintings from the Sikh period, featuring the Guler, Kangra and Pahari schools of thoughts and a Quran presented by Raja Ranjeet Singh to one of his ministers. A large collection of coins has also [...]

Printing ink, etching ink, metallic powder, acrylic paints, hand-made papers are some of the techniques Saadia Zaman use to produce her beautiful calligraphy. Her passion for Islamic calligraphy and her attention to details form the basis of her beautiful art. Saadia has produced a lot of work by commission for corporate headquarters, hotels, resorts and [...]

Though this is her first solo exhibition in Islamabad, Asma exhibited her works for the first time while being stationed in Saudi Arabia in 2000. Asma told ‘The News’ that it was a memorable experience for her as she displayed her paintings at an exhibition organised on the behest of the Crown Prince to display [...]

An art exhibit displaying contemporary miniature paintings from Pakistan will open tonight at 7:30 in the Bartlett Center with a lecture by an Oklahoma State University art history professor. The art form lost popularity in the mid 19th century, but the paintings are once again drawing attention in Pakistan and the Western Hemisphere. With at [...]

The evening’s most popular attraction was one that nearly every woman, and even some men, lined up and waited the better part of an hour to participate in. The henna demonstration booth, set up in the ballroom’s northwest corner, attracted children, not yet old enough to walk, as well as grandparents who marveled at the [...]