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...coincidence that Arjumand studied at Pakistan's premier art school, the National College of Arts (NCA) in Lahore, and that ul-Hassan has taught there. The only art school in the world to boast a miniature department where students learn the painstaking techniques that Mughal miniaturists employed, the college has produced a string of artists who are reinvigorating old forms with post-9/11 themes. Imran Qureshi, a professor of miniature at the NCA, has a solo show in Oxford's Modern Art museum, which includes his delicate rendering of a bearded mullah blowing bubbles. In 2003, Qureshi and five...
Proof of this meritocracy hangs at Nasar's gallery in a show by NCA graduate Khadim Ali. Raised in Quetta, the son of Afghan refugees, Ali taught himself to draw using charcoal scavenged from bakeries. His artistic inspiration was his family's only book: an illustrated copy of the Shahnameh, a 10th century Persian epic revered in Afghanistan. The Taliban co-opted the poem's hero, Rustam, as a propaganda figure, telling Afghans that they, like him, were winged heroes endowed with arrows to defeat evil. Ali's phantasmagoric show, "Rustam," features a devil-figure with horns, wings...
...needed to learn about secularism after a neighbor showed him the Bible. "Damian was quite certain this guy was right and was telling him this amazing truth that I had never shared," says Kneisley. In most ways a traditional sleep-away camp--her son loved canoeing--Camp Quest also taught Damian critical thinking, world religions and tales of famous freethinkers (an umbrella term for atheists, agnostics and other rationalists) like the black abolitionist Frederick Douglass...
Reared in Arlington, Va., Govan taught drawing in high school, hoped to be an artist and double-majored in studio art and art history at Massachusetts' Williams College. There he met Williams College Museum of Art then director Thomas Krens who, spotting talent, soon had him designing brochures and posters. "He was fast, quick, bright and mature beyond his years," recalls Krens, today director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation. "Michael seemed preternaturally sophisticated about...
...current American foreign policy and stressed the importance of the United States’ position as a global leader. While Tutu counted the U.S. as a strong ally in the fight against apartheid, he has been critical of American foreign policy during the Bush administration. “You taught us no government worth its salt can subvert the rule of law. We believed you,” Tutu said at a gathering of Nobel laureates last year, according to The Washington Post. “That’s part of what you have as a gift...