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		<title>Urdu Reading Group</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jul 2011 08:12:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Amar Mehboob]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Asif Farrukhi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fehmida Riaz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Urdu Reading Group]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Zehra Nigah]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Every other Sunday, eminent writer Asif Farrukhi leads an Urdu reading group at Poppy Seed.  In the wake of the Framing the Local Context series of talks, many of us (20 and 30 somethings) felt we needed and wanted to learn more about Urdu fiction and didn&#8217;t even know where to begin.  Asif Farrukhi, who had [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=poppyseedgallery.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10563477&amp;post=859&amp;subd=poppyseedgallery&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tradition and Art Seminar online</title>
		<link>http://poppyseedgallery.wordpress.com/2011/06/22/tradition-and-art-seminar-online/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jun 2011 07:11:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dr. Basit Koshul]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dr. Ejaz Akram]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dr. Wahab Suri]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Naiza Khan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Salwat Ali]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sumbul Khan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taimoor Khan Mumtaz]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[To view the proceedings of the Seminar, held 30th April, 2011, peruse the following links: Dr. Ejaz Akram, Associate Professor, LUMS: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrCjs7yhLac Dr. Wahab Suri, Associate Professor, Karachi University: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcxhH5Bwl5o Dr. Basit Koshul, Associate Professor, LUMS: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsOzLBREhzc Taimoor Khan Mumtaz, Trustee, Baytunur: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jJwnHkIO70 Naiza Khan, Artist: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppRm3jbNrE4 Salwat Ali, Art Critic: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kl70b7sJriQ Sumbul Khan, Curator, Poppy [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=poppyseedgallery.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10563477&amp;post=847&amp;subd=poppyseedgallery&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Urban Condition</title>
		<link>http://poppyseedgallery.wordpress.com/2011/05/14/the-urban-condition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 May 2011 05:58:27 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Exhibitions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Amber Hammad]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Saba Khan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sana Arjumand]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In &#8220;The Urban Condition&#8221; (May 19th &#8211; Jun 5th, 2011) three artists explore the contradictions and paradoxes of living in a city constantly transforming because of technology, struggling with issues of class and exploitation and yet continuing to hope for something better, as the folklore they grew up on had promised. Amber Hammad’s work explores how [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=poppyseedgallery.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10563477&amp;post=820&amp;subd=poppyseedgallery&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Seminar: Tradition and Art (April 30th, 2011)</title>
		<link>http://poppyseedgallery.wordpress.com/2011/04/21/seminar-tradition-and-art-april-30th-2011/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Apr 2011 07:33:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ps31</dc:creator>
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		<title>What&#8217;s Hot? (April 3rd &#8211; 17th, 2011)</title>
		<link>http://poppyseedgallery.wordpress.com/2011/04/07/whats-hot-april-3rd-17th-2011/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Apr 2011 06:50:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ps31</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Exhibitions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Danish Ahmed]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Malika Abbas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Muhammad Ali]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[popular]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sehba Maruf]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sophia Mairaj]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sumaiya Jilani]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[What's Hot?]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[“What’s hot?” or should we ask, What’s hot now?  Since Andy Warhol popular culture has been equated with an ordinariness that is antithetical to bourgeois taste.  Whereas Warhol’s soup can symbolized “common” experience, Warhol himself claimed to partake of it.  In contrast, when local tropes of popular culture such as the truck art aesthetic, the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=poppyseedgallery.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10563477&amp;post=739&amp;subd=poppyseedgallery&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Danish Ahmed. Coke Mehrab (diptych). 2011. Silk screen and acrylic on canvas. 18in x 18in each</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Danish Ahmed. Coke Gumbad (diptych). 2011. Silk screen and acrylic on canvas. 18in x 18in each</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Muhammad Ali. Green Tea without Sugar. 2011. Mixed media. Approx 23.5in x 49in</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Grren Tea Without Sugar detail 5.</media:title>
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		<media:content url="http://poppyseedgallery.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/muhammad-ali-zubeidalive-com-2011-neddle-work-on-fabric-27-5in-x-30-5in.jpg?w=277" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Muhammad Ali. zubeida@live.com. 2011. Neddle work on fabric. 27.5in x 30.5in.</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Muhammad Ali. Table for Two. 2011. Mixed media. Dimensions variable.</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Sehba Maruf. Three in a Box. 2011. Collage. 6in x 19in.</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Malika Abbas. Treasure Box. 2011. Mixed media on watercolor paper. Approx 29in x 16in.</media:title>
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		<media:content url="http://poppyseedgallery.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/malika-abbas-bandwagon-series-2-2011-mixed-media-on-watercolor-paper-approx-7-5in-x-7in.jpg?w=300" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Malika Abbas. Bandwagon Series 2. 2011. Mixed media on watercolor paper. Approx 7.5in x 7in.</media:title>
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		<media:content url="http://poppyseedgallery.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/malika-abbas-bandwagon-series-3-2011-mixed-media-on-watercolor-paper-approx-7-5in-x-7in.jpg?w=300" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Malika Abbas. Bandwagon Series 3. 2011. Mixed media on watercolor paper. Approx 7.5in x 7in.</media:title>
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		<media:content url="http://poppyseedgallery.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/malika-abbas-bandwagon-series-4-2011-mixed-media-on-watercolor-paper-approx-7-5in-x-7in.jpg?w=300" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Malika Abbas. Bandwagon Series 4. 2011. Mixed media on watercolor paper. Approx 7.5in x 7in.</media:title>
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		<media:content url="http://poppyseedgallery.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/malika-abbas-bandwagon-series-5-2011-mixed-media-on-watercolor-paper-approx-7-5in-x-7-25in.jpg?w=300" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Malika Abbas. Bandwagon Series 5. 2011. Mixed media on watercolor paper. Approx 7.5in x 7.25in.</media:title>
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		<media:content url="http://poppyseedgallery.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/malika-abbas-bandwagon-series-6-2011-mixed-media-on-watercolor-paper-7-5in-x-7in.jpg?w=300" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Malika Abbas. Bandwagon Series 6. 2011. Mixed media on watercolor paper. 7.5in x 7in.</media:title>
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		<media:content url="http://poppyseedgallery.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/malika-abbas-bandwagon-series-1-2011-mixed-media-on-watercolor-paper-approx-7-5in-x-5in.jpg?w=300" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Malika Abbas. Bandwagon Series 1. 2011. Mixed media on watercolor paper. Approx 7.5in x 5in.</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Sumaiya Jillani. T-shirts (front). 2011. Screen print on cotton t-shirt.</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Sumaiya Jillani. T-shirts (back). 2011. Screen Print on cotton t-shirt.</media:title>
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		<title>The Inquiry of Art &#8211; a solo by Hasnat Mehmood</title>
		<link>http://poppyseedgallery.wordpress.com/2011/02/28/the-inquiry-of-art-a-solo-by-hasnat-mehmood/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Feb 2011 08:13:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ps31</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Hasnat Mehmood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Inquiry of Art]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ About &#8220;The Inquiry of Art&#8221; (Feb 27th &#8211; Mar 13th, 2011), Hasnat Mehmood writes:   &#8220;The body of work produced for this show is an investigation of the very basics of Pakistani art in the present times. For this purpose I asked my colleagues to provide me with names of people (writers, visual artists, poets, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=poppyseedgallery.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10563477&amp;post=654&amp;subd=poppyseedgallery&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Portraits- the Inquiry of Art- Risham Syed</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Hasnat Mehmood. Portrait-Do it Yourself. 886 handmade books in wooden shelves. 6 shelves, 36in x 18in x 4in each.</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Hasnat Mehmood. Note book series. Bank note collages on hand made books. Variable.</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Hasnat Mehmood. Flirting with Bank Notes I. Bank note collages on illustration board. 33.5in x 41.5in.</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Hasnat Mehmood. Flirting with Bank Notes II. Bank note collages on illustration board. 33.5in x 41.5in.</media:title>
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		<title>&#8220;Calling All Heroes&#8221; (Feb 4th &#8211; 20th, 2011)</title>
		<link>http://poppyseedgallery.wordpress.com/2011/02/10/calling-all-heroes-feb-4th-20th-2011/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Feb 2011 19:48:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Danish Raza]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Calling All Heroes&#8221; is Danish Raza&#8217;s second solo exhibition. About this body of work, he writes: We live in a society of reluctant heroes.  Heroes with the power of a million exploding suns sit idly, unable to recongize their true potential, waiting for a true hero to save the day.  In truth, we don&#8217;t need super [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=poppyseedgallery.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10563477&amp;post=637&amp;subd=poppyseedgallery&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Danish Raza. Picture of a Self. 2011. Acrylics on canvas. 24in x 30in.</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Danish Raza. The Reluctant Hero. 2011. Pen and digital print on paper. 11in x 8.5in.</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Danish Raza. Follow the Twitters. 2011. Pen and digital print on paper. 11in x 8.5in.</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Danish Raza. Coming Home. 2011. Pen and digital print on paper. 11in x 8.5in.</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Dansh Raza. Triumph of Evil. 2011. Pen and digital print on paper. 11in x 8.5in.</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Danish Raza. The Man with 100 Wings. 2011. Pen and digital print on paper. 11in x 8.5in.</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Danish Raza. Super Sacrificial Goat. 2011. Pen and digital print on paper. 11in x 8.5in.</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Danish Raza. Alter Ego. 2011. Pen and digital print on paper. 11in x 8.5in.</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Danish Raza. Empathy. 2010. Acrylics on canvas. 4ft x 3ft.</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Danish Raza. Apathy. 2011. Acrylic on canvas. 4ft x 3ft.</media:title>
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		<title>Prying</title>
		<link>http://poppyseedgallery.wordpress.com/2011/01/13/prying/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jan 2011 10:50:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ps31</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Exhibitions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lali]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mehreen Khalid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Najia Omer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Umer Adil]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The camera is a device often critiqued for prying.  “Prying” (January 15th – 26th, 2011) presents the works of three artists where each of the results of the prying lens leads the viewer through a different kind of vicarious experience. Umer Adil’s documentary photographs from the rural areas of Pakistan capture a defiant affront to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=poppyseedgallery.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10563477&amp;post=579&amp;subd=poppyseedgallery&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Umer Adil. Untitled I (edition 1 of 5). 2009. Digital print on Kodak lustre photo paper. 12in x 18in.</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Umer Adil. Untitled II (edition 1 of 5). 2007. Digital print on Kodak  lustre photo paper. 12in x 18in.</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Umer Adil. Untitled III. 2008 (edition 1 of 5). Digital print on Kodak lustre photo paper. 18in x 12in.</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Umer Adil. Untitled IV (edition 1 of 5). 2007. Digital print on 180 gm coated matte paper. 20in x 12in.</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Umer Adil. Untitled V (edition 1 of 5). 2009. Digital print on 180 gm coated matte paper. 30in x 12in.</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Umer Adil. Untitled VI (edition 1 of 5). 2010. Digital print on Kodak lustre photo paper. 18in x 12in.</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Umer Adil. Untitled VII (edition 1 of 5). 2010. Digital print on Kodak lustre photo paper. 18in x 12in.</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Umer Adil. Untitled VIII (edition 1 of 5). 2000. Black and white photograph on Kodak lustre photo paper. 12in x 18in.</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Mehreen Khalid. Taimur &#38; I, Canoneer Court Brooklyn. 2009. Digital C-print. 20in x 30in.</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Mehreen Khalid. Saroos, Gulberg III Lahore. 2009. Archival inkjet print. 24in x 24in.</media:title>
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		<media:content url="http://poppyseedgallery.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/mehreen-khalid-taimur-i-breakfast-table-1-707-sylvan-rd-michigan-2010-digital-c-print-20in-x-30in.jpg?w=300" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Mehreen Khalid. Taimur &#38; I, Breakfast Table 1, 707 Sylvan Rd. Michigan. 2010. Digital C-print. 20in x 30in.</media:title>
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		<media:content url="http://poppyseedgallery.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/mehreen-khalid-taimur-i-breakfast-table-2-707-sylvan-rd-michigan-2010-digital-c-print-20in-x-30in1.jpg?w=300" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Mehreen Khalid. Taimur &#38; I, Breakfast Table 2, 707 Sylvan Rd. Michigan. 2010.  Digital C-print. 20in x 30in.</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Mehreen Khalid. Last Day, 707 Sylvan Rd. Michigan. 2010. Digital C-print. 20in x 30in.</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Mehreen Khalid. Me, 2573 Fair Ave, Ohio. 2010. Archival inkjet print. 24in x 24in</media:title>
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		<media:content url="http://poppyseedgallery.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/mehreen-khalid-me-dining-room-1318-west-argyle-chicago-2010-archival-inkjet-print-24in-x-24in.jpg?w=296" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Mehreen Khalid. Me, Dining Room, 1318 West Argyle Chicago. 2010. Archival inkjet print. 24in x 24in.</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Mehreen Khalid. Me, Attic, 2573 Fair Ave. Ohio. 2008. Digital C-print. 24in x 24in.</media:title>
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		<media:content url="http://poppyseedgallery.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/mehreen-khalid-me-cricket-ground-aitchison-college-lahore-2009-archival-inkjet-print-24in-x-24in.jpg?w=300" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Mehreen Khalid. Me, Cricket Ground, Aitchison College, Lahore. 2009. Archival inkjet print. 24in x 24in.</media:title>
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		<title>Salwat Ali and Amra Ali on &#8220;Who&#8217;s Afraid of Theory?&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://poppyseedgallery.wordpress.com/2010/12/19/salwat-ali-and-amra-ali-on-whos-afraid-of-theory/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Dec 2010 10:29:22 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Critic&#039;s voices]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Amra Ali]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Salwat Ali]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Who's Afraid of Theory?]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Salwat Ali. &#8220;Who&#8217;s Afraid of Art Theory?&#8221; in Dawn Gallery, Sunday, December 5th, 2010. http://www.dawn.com/2010/12/05/local-perspective-who%e2%80%99s-afraid-of-art-theory.html and a sister piece on theory itself taking cue from the exhibition: Salwat Ali. &#8220;The Intellectual Debate&#8221; in Dawn Gallery, Sunday, December 5th, 2010 http://www.dawn.com/2010/12/05/discourse-the-intellectual-debate.html Amra Ali. A Critical Discourse in The News on Sunday, Nov. 28th, 2010 http://jang.com.pk/thenews/nov2010-weekly/nos-28-11-2010/enc.htm#4 Filed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=poppyseedgallery.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10563477&amp;post=571&amp;subd=poppyseedgallery&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Representational is not a Dirty Word (Dec 4th &#8211; 19th, 2010)</title>
		<link>http://poppyseedgallery.wordpress.com/2010/12/03/representational-is-not-a-dirty-word-dec-4th-19th-2010/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Dec 2010 18:17:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ever since the 80’s, in Pakistan Representational Art has had to fight for legitimacy as a genre. It was first denigrated by Zia’s pseudo Islamist policies which favoured calligraphy and abstraction over representational work. In the more recent shift towards the conceptual, “representational” is a term assigned almost pejoratively to work whose primary interest is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=poppyseedgallery.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10563477&amp;post=538&amp;subd=poppyseedgallery&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<media:content url="http://poppyseedgallery.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/madiha-hyder-mad-world-4-2010-graphite-and-charcoal-powder-pencils-conte-newspaper-clippings-on-canvas-4-x-3.jpg?w=225" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Madiha Hyder. Mad World 4. 2010. Graphite and charcoal powder, pencils, conte, newspaper clippings on canvas. 4' x 3'.</media:title>
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		<media:content url="http://poppyseedgallery.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/madiha-hyder-mad-world-5-dyptich-2010-graphite-and-charcoal-powder-pencils-conte-newspaper-clippings-on-canvas-6-x-4.jpg?w=300" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Madiha Hyder. Mad World 5 (dyptich). 2010. Graphite and charcoal powder, pencils, conte, newspaper clippings on canvas. 6' x 4'.</media:title>
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		<media:content url="http://poppyseedgallery.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/madiha-hyder-mad-world-6-2010-graphite-and-charcoal-powder-pencils-conte-newspaper-clippings-on-canvas-3-x-4.jpg?w=225" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Madiha Hyder. Mad World 6. 2010. Graphite and charcoal powder, pencils, conte, newspaper clippings on canvas. 3' x 4'.</media:title>
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		<media:content url="http://poppyseedgallery.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/madiha-hyder-mad-world-2-2010-graphite-and-charcoal-powder-pencils-conte-newspaper-clippings-on-canvas-4-x-3.jpg?w=300" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Madiha Hyder. Mad World 2. 2010. Graphite and charcoal powder, pencils, conte, newspaper clippings on canvas. 4' x 3'.</media:title>
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		<media:content url="http://poppyseedgallery.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/madiha-hyder-mad-world-3-2010-graphite-and-charcoal-powder-pencils-conte-newspaper-clippings-on-canvas-3-x-4.jpg?w=225" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Madiha Hyder. Mad World 3. 2010. Graphite and charcoal powder, pencils, conte, newspaper clippings on canvas. 3' x 4'.</media:title>
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		<media:content url="http://poppyseedgallery.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/durrab-tariq-untitled-2010-oil-on-canvas-42in-diameter.jpg?w=300" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Durrab Tariq. Untitled. 2010. Oil on canvas. 42in diameter.</media:title>
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		<media:content url="http://poppyseedgallery.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/durrab-tariq-untitled-2010-oil-on-canvas-17-5in-diameter.jpg?w=300" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Durrab Tariq. Untitled. 2010. Oil on canvas. 17.5in diameter.</media:title>
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		<media:content url="http://poppyseedgallery.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/durrab-tariq-untitled-2010-oil-on-canvas-26in-diameter.jpg?w=300" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Durrab Tariq. Untitled. 2010. Oil on canvas. 26in diameter.</media:title>
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		<media:content url="http://poppyseedgallery.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/durrab-tariq-untitled-2010-oil-on-canvas-31in-diameter.jpg?w=300" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Durrab Tariq. Untitled. 2010. Oil on canvas. 31in diameter.</media:title>
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		<media:content url="http://poppyseedgallery.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/durrab-tariq-untitled-2010-oil-on-canvas-31inch-diameter.jpg?w=300" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Durrab Tariq. Untitled. 2010. Oil on canvas. 31inch diameter.</media:title>
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		<media:content url="http://poppyseedgallery.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/durrab-tariq-untitled-2010-oil-on-canvas-40in-diameter.jpg?w=300" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Durrab Tariq. Untitled. 2010. Oil on canvas. 40in diameter.</media:title>
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		<media:content url="http://poppyseedgallery.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/durrab-tariq-untitled-2010-oil-on-canvas-28-75in-diameter1.jpg?w=300" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Durrab Tariq. Untitled. 2010. Oil on canvas. 28.75in diameter.</media:title>
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		<media:content url="http://poppyseedgallery.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/saleem-ansari-banyan-2-2010-wood-cut-11in-x-23-5in.jpg?w=140" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Saleem Ansari. Banyan 2. 2010.Wood cut. 11in x 23.5in.</media:title>
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		<media:content url="http://poppyseedgallery.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/saleem-ansari-banyan-5-2010-wood-cut-18in-x-29-5in.jpg?w=181" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Saleem Ansari. Banyan 5. 2010. Wood cut. 18in x 29.5in.</media:title>
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		<media:content url="http://poppyseedgallery.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/saleem-ansari-banyan-4-2010-wood-cut-15in-x-29in.jpg?w=300" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Saleem Ansari. Banyan 4. 2010. Wood cut. 15in x 29in.</media:title>
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		<media:content url="http://poppyseedgallery.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/saleem-ansari-banyan-1-2010-wood-cut-11-5in-x-35in.jpg?w=96" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Saleem Ansari. Banyan 1. 2010. Wood cut. 11.5in x 35in.</media:title>
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		<media:content url="http://poppyseedgallery.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/saleem-ansari-banyan-3-2010-wood-cut-15in-x-25in.jpg?w=191" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Saleem Ansari. Banyan 3. 2010. Wood cut. 15in x 25in.</media:title>
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		<media:content url="http://poppyseedgallery.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/saleem-ansari-banyan-6-2010-wood-cut-15in-x-29-5in.jpg?w=147" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Saleem Ansari. Banyan 6. 2010. Wood cut. 15in x 29.5in.</media:title>
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		<media:content url="http://poppyseedgallery.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/farazeh-syed-saima-2010-oil-on-canvas-36in-x-30in.jpg?w=300" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Farazeh Syed. Saima. 2010. Oil on canvas. 36in x 30in.</media:title>
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		<media:content url="http://poppyseedgallery.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/farazeh-syed-sonia-2010-oil-on-canvas-30in-x-36in.jpg?w=251" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Farazeh Syed. Sonia.  2010. Oil on canvas. 30in x 36in.</media:title>
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		<media:content url="http://poppyseedgallery.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/farazeh-syed-noori-3-2009-oil-on-board-24e2809dx30e2809d.jpg?w=240" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Farazeh Syed. Noori 3. 2009. Oil on board. 24”x30”.</media:title>
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		<media:content url="http://poppyseedgallery.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/farazeh-syed-noori-4-2009-oil-on-canvas-24e2809dx30e2809d.jpg?w=225" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Farazeh Syed. Noori 4.  2009. Oil on canvas.  24”x30”.</media:title>
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		<media:content url="http://poppyseedgallery.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/farazeh-syed-noori-5-2009-oil-on-canvas-30e2809dx36e2809d1.jpg?w=253" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Farazeh Syed. Noori 5.  2009. Oil on canvas.  30”x36”.</media:title>
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