Pervaiz Munir Alvi
Fred Bremner was not born or raised in Pakistan. In fact during his life time there was no country on the map by the name of Pakistan. Yet, for thirty five years he lived and worked among, owned studios and properties at, and traveled through out the areas that would later become Pakistan.
He […]

Owais Mughal
Just like the Billboard painting performed in Pakistan, there is another indigenous form of art performed in Pakistan and it is the Truck Painting. With its all colorful floral patterns, depiction of human heroes with creative aspect ratios, calligraphy of poetic verses and driver’s words of wisdom, this form of art is truly a […]

Darwaish
Pablo Picasso once asked this very interesting question that “Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?” He didn’t give any answer or explanation and I am not sure if there is an answer to this question. Or is there?
I recently found this wonderful work by Maciej Dakowicz, a UK […]

Owais Mughal
A very unique thing about Pakistan is the prevalence of Billboard Paint Art depicting anything from movie advertisements to selling water gysers. Especially colorful and entertaining are the Cinema posters and billboards. For example take a look at some of them below:

Raza Rumi
The art world of Pakistan is not given the attention it deserves. But amends are being made. Arts Pakistan, or Artspak, is a recently developed website, with an exclusive collection of videos, paintings and photographs that depicts the country’s vibrant art scene.
The website has been developed by Khalid Sherdil, a motivated civil servant. The […]

Adil Najam
Today was a bad news day. Not because there was no news, but because the news that was there was particularly bad; even by Pakistani standards.
With all the political shenanigans of late one thought that one had gotten used to bad news. But the hurt today was particularly deep. It hit exactly where […]