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  • Mar 07, 2025

Doha: MANZAR: Art and Architecture from Pakistan 1940s to Today

HABIB FIDA ALI, Shell House, Karachi, Main Elevation, 1978, ink, pencil, and watercolor on paper, 41 × 92 cm. Courtesy the architect.

While a number of international exhibitions have celebrated art from Pakistan over the past few years, “MANZAR: Art and Architecture in Pakistan 1940s to Today” was arguably much more ambitious in scope. Held at the National Museum of Qatar (and co-organized by the forthcoming Art Mill Museum), the exhibition was curated by Caroline Hancock, Aurélien Lemonier, and Zarmeene Shah, and highlighted the artistic and architectural landscape of Pakistan from the dawn of the partition with former-British India in 1947 until today. In Urdu, manzar means “view” or “scene,” and according to Hancock, the curatorial team “discussed how to present plural perspectives, which remain just one introduction to encourage the development of many other future projects.” 


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