Pakistani celebrities are sure defying the stereotypes of beauty and embracing themselves as they are. Recently, actress Mahira Khan graciously embraced her age and then Hania Amir had posted her raw selfies snowing her struggles with acne. Mehwish Hayat also followed suit and posted her raw selfie, asking people to embrace themselves as they are. […]
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Enjoy the world’s most famous works of art in your home via Meural Canvas
If you have a real love for art then you need to take a look at the Meural Canvas – it’s a smart frame that allows you to enjoy the best art and photography from the world’s most famous galleries and museums. What we are looking at here is a 27-inch matte screen surrounded by […]
Wellness genie: the art of happiness
The eternal quest of the mind is to attain success and happiness, although there is no correlation between the two as not all successful people are happy and not all happy people are successful. For common man, hindrances can be identified through self-awareness, self-understanding and self-knowledge. One day the sun and a cave struck up […]
Scaffolding or modern art? Jury out on new fountains
Expensive decorative scaffolding, or a welcome addition to the French capital’s most famous avenue? New designer fountains on the Champs-Elysees have reopened a debate in Paris about how to add modern twists to the city’s beloved classic architecture. Located at a roundabout around halfway between Tuileries Garden and the Arc de Triomphe, the fountains were […]
The art of creating traditional ralli quilts
Sindh is renowned for producing beautiful textiles that also includes the production of ralli quilts. Ralli quilts are traditional blankets made by artisans in the southern provinces of Pakistan including Sindh, Balochistan, Cholistan Desert as well as the southern border of Punjab and its adjoining states of Gujarat and Rajasthan in India. Interestingly, every ralli […]
Adnan Baig to exhibit calligraphy, abstract fusion at Ejaz art gallery
LAHORE: Adnan Baig, despite being a very successful businessman, a law graduate along with a Master’s degree in Psychology, is an artist by nature, perhaps, the first and only Pakistani artist who has united abstract art with calligraphy in a unique fusion of the two different schools and styles of art in his paintings. Adnan […]
The influence of power structures on popular cinematic discourse
Discourses impact our lives. They shape our minds and influence our perceptions towards the realities of it. In addition to this, discourses contribute to the construction of our social realities too. Though the influence of media and books is important in the studies of discourses, the impact of cinema, in this regard, demands intellectual curiosity. Cinema’s […]
French museum’s collection mostly fake, but is it the only one?
Over decades, the small museum of Elne in southern France built up a collection of works by local painter Etienne Terrus, mostly oil and watercolours of the region’s distinctive landscapes and buildings. But what was once a source of pride has turned to embarrassment after 60 percent were found to be fakes, as the museum […]