ISLAMABAD: An exhibition of contemporary lacquered sculptures and paintings by US-based artist Maylene Rasmussen is starting at Nomad Art Gallery today (Tuesday).
As many as 35 caches of delicate yet quirky sculptured paintings are being put on display. Figurative images in paintings titled ‘Kalash Mother’, ‘Lady Black and Red’, ‘Sleeping’, ‘Undressing’ and ‘Solitude’ depicts diverse themes.
The artist not only plays with different colours brilliantly but also uses different foils of silver and gold as well as eggshell, river shell and fabrics to make designs and motifs. Rasmussen is a self-taught artist …

And then we have Resham who is one catty, no-nonsense gal and gave a visible display of this in the cool climes of Murree recently.
Reports say that the silken lass who was shooting for a film in the queen of hills and along with some members of the unit went to a local restaurant to grab a bite. But a group of pesky lads upon recognising her began to misbehave and hurl snide remarks at Resham and her entourage.
This had our gal becoming all fire and brimstone and she got …

As a six- year-old I could hardly understand music. But there was one tune, which I still remember humming in my class when I was in grade one. The song had a distinctly catchy tune and had taken the Pakistani Pop scene by storm. It started off as Sar kiye yeh pahar. Then suddenly the band who sang this song vanished. And when after eight years the Strings launched their smash hit album called Duur I realized that they were the same guys whose tunes infused a craze of music …