KARACHI ART SCENE

ARTSCENE: An exhibition of paintings portraying Chitra Pritam’s expression of gratitude to Jamil Naqsh opens at the Artscene gallery at 6pm on Tuesday. The ceremony will be followed by a book launch. The show will continue till May 11. CHAWKANDI: An exhibition of ceramics works by Salman Ikram opens at the Chawkandi art gallery at 5.30pm on Tuesday. The show titled ‘Crystalline works’ will remain open till May 3, daily from 11am to 8pm CANVAS: An exhibition of drawings, paintings and mixed media works by Ahmed Ali Manganhar, Atif Khan, Muzummil Ruheel and Najia Ali Azmat opens at the Canvas gallery at 5pm on Tuesday. The group show will continue till May 6, daily from 11am to 8pm (except Sunday). The Artist's Magazine (1-year)

OCEANS:   CALLIGRAPHIC paintings by Amjad Butt will be put on display at the Oceans Art Galleries at 6.30pm on Wednesday. The opening ceremony will be followed by the artist’s compiled works. The show will continue till April 20, daily from 11am to 9pm. KOEL: An exhibition of works by Arshad Faruqui opens at the Koel Gallery at 5pm on Wednesday. The show titled ‘Just copper’ will remain open till May 6, daily from 11am to 8pm (except Sundays). CANVAS: AN exhibition of new media works by Imran Channa and Mahreen Zuberi opens at the Canvas gallery at 5pm on Tuesday. The show will remain open till April 22, daily from 11am to 8pm (except Sunday). KSA GALLERY: An exhibition of works by 10 artists opens at the KSA Gallery at 5.30pm on Tuesday. The participants are Aimen Kazmi, Durab Tariq, Fariha Saeed, Madiha Bano, Salman Hassan, Saman Ali, Sidrah Arshad, Sivim Naqvi, Syed Mohammad Raza and Uroosa Ishtiaq. The group show will continue till April 27, daily from 10.30am to 6pm ...

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CANVAS: An exhibition of photography by Izdeyar Setna opens at the Canvas Gallery at 5pm on Tuesday. The show titled ‘Faces’ will remain open till April 8, daily from 11am to 8pm (except Sunday). MOMART: “Pigeons and a slice of light”, an exhibition of recent paintings by Jamil Naqsh, along with the launch of his book, will be held at the Momart Art Gallery at 6pm on Sunday. DEFENCE CENTRAL LIBRARY: An exhibition of paintings and photography by Jameel Tashfeen opens at the Defence Central Library at 5pm on Tuesday. The show will remain open till March 25, daily from 11am to 7pm. VM ART GALLERY: A retrospective of Rabia Zuberi’s works from 1960-2009 will be held at the VM Art Gallery at 5pm on Thursday. The opening ceremony will be followed by the launch of the artist’s book on her compiled works. The show will remain open till March 31, daily from 10.30am to 7.30pm (except Sundays). CLIFTON ART GALLERY: Calligraphy: AN exhibition of calligraphic compositions by Ahmed Khan ...

A preview of the solo exhibition of Contemporary jewellery and glass castings by artist Shakil Ismail was organised at Nomad Art Gallery (NAG) . Winner of many awards, Shakil is a graduate of Central Institute of Art and Craft, Karachi. He has been exhibiting since the mid 1980’s and has had innumerable solo and group exhibition at home and abroad. A Karachi based artist, he is a deft craftsman and has gained a reputation for his contemporary jewellery. He first exhibited his collection of metal jewellery in 1992 and found an appreciative market for his work. Since then he has taken time out to design unusual trinkets, sketching hundreds of designs and choosing just a few which translate into wearable pieces. He used charming colours to attract his fans . Qur’anic verses adorn his jewellery and form an integral part of his coloured glass sculpted pieces which are unique. His use of different media like copper, bronze and brass, and his experimentation with chemicals has resulted in a p...

UNICORN: An exhibition of paintings by Soraya Sikander opens at the Unicorn gallery at 5.30pm on Friday, 19 February. SHAKILISMAIL : An exhibition of calligraphy on sculptured pieces of metal, glass etc by Shakil Ismail opens at the ShakilIsmail art gallery at 5.30pm on Tuesday, 16 February. The show will remain open till February 22. GOETHE : AN exhibition of paintings by Ajmal Hussain opens at the Goethe-Institut on Tuesday. It will remain open till February 26, daily from 10am to 9pm. KUNJ : A solo exhibition of calligraphy by Hamid Nasir opened at the Kunj art gallery on Monday. The show will continue till March 15. CANVAS : ARTWORKS by Anila Quayyum Agha and Salman Toor will be put on display at the Canvas gallery at 5pm on Tuesday. The exhibition titled ‘All about us” will continue till February 25, daily from 11am to 8pm (except Sunday).

NUMBER 18 Rue Bouvreuil was once a mecca for lovers of Haitian art. Outside the Musée Galerie d’Art Nader, perched on a hillside overlooking Port-au-Prince, a sign greeted visitors. ‘On top of the town, top in the arts’ it boasted. Inside, the walls were plastered with thousands of paintings recording nearly a century of Haitian history. Now the three-storey art gallery is gone, reduced to a dusty heap of rubble and torn canvases. Broken picture frames from irreplaceable local masterpieces poke from the gallery’s ruins. “My dad has about 12,000 paintings here and we are trying to save what is left,” said Georges Nader, the son of Haiti’s best-known art collector and the owner of the gallery, as he scanned the debris. “We have only been able to save about 2,000 of them.” The human cost of Haiti’s worst earthquake in more than 200 years — at least 150,000 lives lost — has been well documented. But the disaster also struck a knockout blow to the heart of Haiti’s vibrant arts community. Se...