Tag: art
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Prisoner sells paintings to support sister’s wedding, mother’s umrah
Imprisoned for kidnapping for ransom, a man contributed financially to his sister’s marriage by making paintings in jail. From the sales, he earned enough for his mother to perform Umrah too. While Ijaz was imprisoned in the Central Jail Karachi, he painted 23 works of art, some of which were displayed in the Arts Council.…
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‘Take the money and run’; Danish artist submits blank canvasses to museum
A Danish artist owes around 500,000 kroner (Rs14,408,870) to Kunsten museum in Aalborg after submitting two blank canvasses as part of a project called “Take the Money and Run”. Conceptual artist Jens Haaning presses upon the issues of power and inequality through his work and one of his projects was commissioned by by the Kunsten…
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From prisoner to artist: Guantanamo Bay detainee showcases work at Karachi exhibition
Ahmed Rabbani, a 53-year-old Pakistani who was recently released after 20 years of detention at Guantanamo Bay, turned to painting to satisfy his artistic yearnings. When he ran out of paint, he used whatever he could find, including dirt, coffee grinds, and spices such as turmeric from the prison canteen.
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Pakistani-American artist Shahzia Sikander criticises Fox News for calling her sculpture ‘satanic’
Pakistani artist Shazia Sikandar made international headlines a few weeks ago when her statue ‘Havah…, to breathe, air, life’ was installed on the rooftop of the New York appellate courthouse . View this post on Instagram A post shared by Shahzia Sikander (@shahzia.sikander) Conservative US news channel Fox News covered the installation of the statue…
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Amitabh pays 2.61 crore PKR as GST after selling his NFT collection for 17 crore PKR
The Bollywood superstar, Amitabh Bachchan has finally paid 2.61 crore PKR in GST for the sale of his non-fungible token (NFT) collection, which was auctioned for 17.16 crore PKR in the first week of November 2021. Some of the netizens may remember that Bachchan had received a warning from the Directorate General of Goods and…
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Man eats $120,000 piece of art
The world truly has gone bananas. A performance artist shook up the crowd at the Art Basel show in Miami Beach on Saturday when he grabbed a banana that had been duct-taped to a gallery wall and ate it. What’s interesting is that the banana was, in fact, a work of art by Italian artist…