“Integrated with south Asian work from CMA’s collection, this uniquely positions encyclopedic museums like us, like Cincinnati, to provide a greater context,” said Emily Liebert, curator of ...

A sculpture by the Pakistani artist Shahzia Sikander has incurred the wrath of an anti-abortion group in Texas, leading the University of Houston to cancel a planned artist talk and opening reception ...

Shahzia Sikander is an American-Pakistani artist whose eclectic work merges contemporary issues of Middle Eastern identity with art-historical references. Fusing traditional Indo-Persian miniature ...

Sikander’s first New York solo show in nine years includes a captivating range of paintings, mosaics, animations, and the artist’s first-ever sculpture. These days, Sikander’s art practice ...

Some artists who diversify from their original genre don’t do so very well, producing uneven results that feel contrived for the demands of the art market. Shahzia Sikander more than succeeds. “The ...

The Pakistani artist Shahzia Sikander helped create a whole new genre of painting known as neo-miniature—all before she’d finished her art degree. The extremely time-consuming practice is based on ...

Shahzia Sikander, with Du Yun, Ali Sethi, Catholic Girls Choir, and Young Children of Traditional Musicians from the Walled City of Lahore, Darbaar-e-Aam, Lahore Fort. “Disruption As Rapture” (2018), ...

In 1989, Shahzia Sikander enrolled in the illuminated manuscript painting course at the National College of Arts in Lahore, Pakistan, her native city. The discipline was considered hopelessly outmoded ...