Arts & Crafts - 9

A group exhibition titled ‘Unveiled’, featuring the works of six figurative painters, will open at the Royaat Gallery The Mall on Thursday. The gallery is an extension of the existing Royaat gallery at Defence. Raja Changez Sultan, the Pakistan National of Council Of Arts (PNCA) director general curated the show. The artists whose work would [...]

A music and dance evening titled ‘Sur Taal’ organised by the Society of Classical Arts (SCA) was held at Alhamra Cultural Complex on Monday. Before the programme, Bina Jawwad, an SCA member, said that SCA had been founded to promote Pakistani music and dance heritage amongst the young generation. Ms Jawad lamented that artists were [...]

The travelling art exhibition titled ‘Pakistan and India: Changing Mindsets’ has come to Karachi and will open at the VM Art gallery, Rangoonwala Community Centre from today. This exhibition is being organised by the Youth Initiative for Peace (YIP) who are conducting a series of such travelling exhibitions. The aims of the art show are: [...]

The All About Lifestyles exhibition concluded at the Fortress Stadium on Sunday night after attracting crowds for two days. Arranged by the Dawn Group of Newspapers, the All About Lifestyles was the first-ever exhibition to be held at the newly-built Exhibition Centre at the Fortress Stadium. More than 120 exhibitors had set up their stalls [...]

Our view of the world around us is often shaped by the latest technology, like the cameras that bring us around-the-clock news about the turbulence in south Asia. A group of Pakistani artists, however, are bucking the trend by using a centuries-old medium to interpret current events in often daring ways that challenge perceptions filtered [...]

Farrukh Ashraf repaired the shoes with 2½-inch heels worn by the precision dance troupe, which finished a 37-performance run of “Radio City Christmas Spectacular” here last week. “The work was not that hard; it’s just so many of them at one time,” Ashraf said recently while gluing rubber-sole protectors to 24 pairs of T-strap leather [...]

The United Nations World Food Programme (UNWFP) arranged a colourful prize distribution ceremony-cum-art exhibition titled ‘A girl in school is a girl with a future’ by government primary schoolgirls at Alhamra Cultural Complex on Saturday. The event not only aimed to encourage young school-going females but also to recognise their artwork – by giving space [...]

All the rooms and pavilions of the Mohatta Palace Museum buzzed with activity as a major exhibition showcasing the history of Karachi got under way on Wednesday. Organized by the Mohatta Palace Museum in collaboration with the Dawn Group of Newspapers, the 90-day exhibition is titled Jewel in the crown: Karachi under the Raj 1843-1947. [...]

Alhamra Cultural Complex looked surreal amidst decorative lights, as performances varying from enthralling Uzbek dances to hilarious slapstick performances by the Wall Street Theatre, Indian theatre and Ajoka’s theatre heightened activity at the Rafi Peer World Performing Arts Festival on Monday night. The Uzbek camp in particular was jam-packed with spectators who were completely enthralled [...]

A two-day seminar of the Pakistan chapter of the Paris-based body of art critics, Association of International Critics of Arts (AICA), with delegates from Pakistan and 10 other countries, opened in the Aga Khan Hospital auditorium on Thursday. The hallmark of the seminar were thought-provoking discussions that followed at the end of the two sessions, [...]