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Iftikhar Dadi and John Tain program for Climate Congress at Lahore Biennale 03, November 2-8, 2024 > PDF
Zaman, Aisha. “‘Manzar’ Exhibition in Qatar Puts Spotlight on Pakistani Art and Architecture through the Ages.” Arab News, November 17, 2024 > PDF
“Home and the World at Museum Van Loon with Thomas Berghuis.” International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS). August 28, 2024 > PDF > LINK
Wendt, Selene. “Creating Space for Enwezor’s Curatorial Vision.” Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art, no. 53 (November 2023): 101–12 > PDF
Hong, Lenge. “The Other Kabul: Remains of the Garden.” ARLIS/NA Reviews, no. 4 (July 1, 2023): 23–24 > PDF
“The Artists’ Artists [on Pop South Asia].” Artforum, December, 2023 > LINK > PDF
“Nalini Malani on Her Life and Work,” Artforum, August, 2023 > LINK > PDF
“Asian Pop - Fukuoka Asian Art Museum 25th Anniversary Collection Exhibition,” April 20 - September 3, 2024 > PDF
Lunn, Max. “New Vision at the Sharjah Biennial,” Perspective Magazine, April 13, 2023 > LINK > PDF
Universes in Universe. “Iftikhar Dadi and Elizabeth Dadi - Sharjah Biennial 2023.” Accessed March 5, 2023 > PDF > LINK
Jordan, Eliza. “The 15th Sharjah Biennial Opens in the UAE.” Whitewall. Accessed February 22, 2023 > LINK
Spence, Rachel. “Curator Hammad Nasar: ‘What If All Turner’s Best Paintings Were in Lahore?’,” Financial Times, February 11, 2023, sec. Visual Arts > PDF > LINK
Dadi, Iftikhar. “Timepass.” In Best! Letters from Asian Americans, edited by Christopher Ho and Daisy Nam, 251–55. Brooklyn: Paper Monument, 2021 > PDF
Mufti, Aamir R. “Bricolage Within the Imperial Divide: Introduction to Iftikhar Dadi and Elizabeth Dadi’s Jugaad.” ARTMargins 9, no. 3 (October 2020) > PDF > LINK
Bhatia, Rahul. “Durjoy Bangladesh Foundation Promotes South Asian Art with International Audience,” STIR, December 2, 2020 > PDF > LINK
Dadi, Iftikhar. “Visual Culture and the Popular.” Visual Culture Questionnaire - M+ Stories, January 14, 2020 > PDF > LINK
“Iftikhar Dadi & Elizabeth Dadi.” In Devika Singh and Amy Tobin, eds. Homelands: Art from Bangladesh, India and Pakistan, 34–41. Cambridge: Kettle’s Yard, University of Cambridge, 2019 > PDF
Singh, Devika. “Homelands: An Introduction.” In Devika Singh and Amy Tobin, eds. Homelands: Art from Bangladesh, India and Pakistan, 9–19. Cambridge: Kettle’s Yard, University of Cambridge, 2019 > PDF
Dadi, Iftikhar. “Reflections on the Havana Biennial at Matanzas (2019).” Anthropology Now 11, no. 3 (June 2019): 74–81 > PDF
Simpson, Veronica. “Brief Encounters: Kettle’s Yard Homelands Exhibition - DesignCurial.” designcurial.com, February 19, 2020 > PDF
“Remember, Remember: The Artists You Have to See This November.” ELEPHANT. November 8, 2019 > PDF
“Our Pick of Books and Exhibitions This November.” British Journal of Photography, November, 2019 > PDF
“Visions of Home That Are Gut-Wrenching, Contemplative, and Funny.” Hyperallergic, December 24, 2019 > PDF
Uchill, Rebecca. “Best of 2019: Our Top 15 Exhibitions Around the World.” Hyperallergic, December 20, 2019 > LINK > PDF
Jhala, Kabir. “‘South Asian group show brings post-partition politics to Cambridge.” The Art Newspaper, November 12, 2019 > PDF
Dadi, Iftikhar. “‘Citizenship and Art.” Pix “Citizenship Issue” 16 (March 2019) > PDF
Gehi, Reema. “‘Being Objective.” Mumbai Mirror, January 4, 2019 > PDF
Khan, Zahra. “‘Pakistan.” ArtAsiaPacific Almanac 2019 14, (2019): 151-153 > PDF
Pandey, Tejal. “‘Plastic popular.” The Hindu, December 21, 2018 > PDF
Ayaz, Shaikh. “‘A new exhibition at Mumbai’s Jhaveri Contemporary zooms into urban objects of desire.” Architectural Digest India, December 12, 2018 > PDF
Kaul, Mayank Mansingh. “Jhaveri Contemporary Opens In Colaba.” Brown Paper Bag, October 9, 2018 > PDF
Kini-Singh, Amita. “‘What’s Essential’: Inaugurating Jhaveri Contemporary’s New Space in Mumbai,” Art Radar, September 26, 2018 > PDF
Sohail, Aziz. “Expanding Horizons.” Canvas: Art and Culture from the Middle East and Arab World, May-June 2018, 92–97 > PDF
“Whither authenticity? Interview with Ammara Ahmad.” The Friday Times, May 4, 2018 > PDF
Vogel, Sabine B. “Zwischen Miniaturmalerei und Terrorattacken: Zeitgenössische Kunst in Pakistan.” Kunstforum International, no. 254 (July 6, 2018): 310–17 > PDF
Terracciano, Emilia. “The Vengeful Genie: A Report from the Inaugural Lahore Biennale.” Frieze, April 7, 2018 > PDF
“In Conversation with Iftikhar Dadi: Interview with Zohreen Murtaza.” Artnow: Contemporary Art of Pakistan, April 2018 > PDF
Coon, Chelsea. “Lahore Biennale 01: 7 Highlights + in Conversation.” Art Radar, March 26, 2018 > PDF
Dadi, Iftikhar. “The Smuggler: A Mural by Sadequain.” Take On Art (December 2017), 26–28 > PDF
Dadi, Iftikhar. “Through the Aperture.” Domus India 07, no. 1 (November 2017): 30–42 > PDF
Khullar, Sonal. “Everyday Partitions: My East Is Your West (2015) and This Night-Bitten Dawn (2016).” Third Text (2017) > PDF
Dadi, Iftikhar. “A Brief History of Form and Meaning in Pakistani Art.” The Herald, September 12, 2017 > PDF
Kabir, Ananya Jahanara. “From Postmemory to Post-Amnesia.” The Daily Star. August 25, 2017 > PDF
Dadi, Iftikhar. “Reflections on Art and Nationalism.” In This Night Bitten Dawn, edited by Salima Hashmi, 7–11. New Delhi: Devi Art Foundation, 2016 > PDF
Johnson, Adam Sindre. “The Missing One at OCA: Sci Fi Art from Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.” Elementa, December 21, 2016 > PDF
Joung, Nora. “The Possibility of Coexistence.” Kunstkritikk, October 26, 2016 > PDF
Rustomji, Veera. “Why Pakistani Artists Are Opting for Residency Programmes.” The Herald, August 23, 2016 > PDF
Glaser, Linda B. “Engaged Art and Its Critique.” Cornell University College of Arts & Sciences, May 9, 2016 > PDF
Yau, Elise. “Finding The Missing One with Nada Raza, Assistant Curator at Tate Modern.” CoBo, April 7, 2016 > PDF
Bailey, Stephanie. “House of Love: A Report from Art Dubai.” OCULA, April 5, 2016 > PDF
Pheby, Helen. “Dhaka Art Summit.” Yorkshire Sculpture Park | YSP Blog, February 16, 2016 > PDF
“Contextualising Contemporary South Asian Art: Diana Campbell Betancourt on Dhaka Art Summit 2016.” Art Radar, January 30, 2016 > PDF
Dastgir, Nasr. “Uncover the Missing Ones.” Dhaka Tribune, January 16, 2016 > PDF
Pillai, Pooja. “Identities Repackaged.” The Indian Express, January 7, 2016 > PDF
Modi, Chintan Girish. “Of Heroes, Nations and Identities.” The Hindu, January 1, 2016 > PDF
Dadi, Iftikhar. “Efflorescence.” In Border Cultures, edited by Srimoyee Mitra. London: Black Dog, 2016 > PDF
Rajgopal, Ambika. “‘Epic Ecologies’: Pakistani-American Artist Duo Iftikhar and Elizabeth Dadi in Mumbai.” Art Radar, December 18, 2015 > PDF
Banerjee, Jasodhara. “Art sans Frontières.” Forbes India Magazine, September 1, 2015 > PDF
Oscar, James. “Remapping Art History: Infinite Possibilities and Multiple Modernities.” Montréal Serai, June 23, 2015 > PDF
Collins, Shay. “Flower Power: Efflorescence at the John Hartell Gallery.” The Cornell Daily Sun, April 7, 2015 > PDF
Jhaveri Contemporary. “Epic Ecologies: Iftikhar Dadi and Elizabeth Dadi,” December 10, 2015 - January 9, 2016 > PDF
Dadi, Iftikhar. “Significance of the Art Residency.” In Vasl Artists’ Collective, 2007-2014 (Karachi: Vasl Artists Collective, 2015) > PDF
“Iftikhar Dadi and Elizabeth Dadi: Efflorescence." Cornell AAP” > PDF
“In Conversation with Iftikhar Dadi: Interview with Aziz Sohail.” Artnow: Contemporary Art of Pakistan, February 2015 > PDF
Kabir, Ananya Jahanara. Partition’s Post-Amnesias: 1947, 1971 and Modern South Asia. New Delhi: Women Unlimited, 2013, 15.
Nasar, Hammad. “Karachi Pop: Vernacular Visualities in 1990s Karachi.” Guggenheim Blogs, February 11, 2013 > LINK > PDF
Herbert, Martin. “Caught in the Crossfire: Artistic Responses to Conflict, Peace and Reconciliation.” Art Monthly, 364, (March 2013): 24-25 > PDF
Shaw, Ted. “Exhibits Look at Life on the Border.” Windsor Star, January 24, 2013 > PDF
“Asia Pacific Triennial: Reflections on the First Decade,” CONTEMPORARY VISUAL ART+CULTURE Broadsheet magazine 41, no. 4 (2012) > PDF
Dadi, Iftikhar. “Curating South Asia.” Guggenheim Blogs, October 1, 2012 > LINK > PDF
Dadi, Iftikhar. “Partition and Contemporary Art,” in Lines of Control: Partition as a Productive Space. Edited by Iftikhar Dadi and Hammad Nasar. Ithaca: Herbert F Johnson Museum of Art, 2012 > PDF
"Iftikhar Dadi and Elizabeth Dadi.” Take on Art 1, no. 4 (January 2011) > PDF
Art India, 15, No. 3 (2010): 45-46
Granta Magazine, No. 112 (Autumn 2010): 148-149
Nasar, Hammad. “From ‘Spirit Pulling’ to ‘Thinking Photography.’” In Where Three Dreams Cross: 150 Years of Photography from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. London: Whitechapel Gallery, 2010 > PDF
Nasar, Hammad. “Pakistan: An Art of Extremes.” Orientations 40, no. 1 (February 2009): 48–58 > PDF
Yusuf, Muhammad. “Drawing Lines,” Time Out: The Gulf Today, January 29, 2009.
Haroon, Layla. “Form and Colour of Divided Destinies | GulfNews.com.” Gulf News, January 22, 2009 > PDF
Money-Coutts, Sophia. “Aligning the debate,” The National (UAE). January 19, 2009
Reeve, Charles. “Clashes of Civilization,” ARTLIES: The Texas Contemporary Art Journal, no. 45 (Fall 2005) > PDF
Cotter, Holland. “Taking a Magical Flight Through Modern India.” The New York Times, March 4, 2005 > PDF
Nolan, Isabel. “Limerick: EV+A 2002.” CIRCA 100 (Summer 2002): 68–71 > PDF
Lloyd, Ann Wilson. “Rambling Round a World That’s Gone Biennialistic.” The New York Times, March 3, 2002 > PDF
Cotter, Holland. “Iftikhar and Elizabeth Dadi.” The New York Times, April 27, 2001 > PDF
Poshyananda, Apinan. “Positioning Contemporary Asian Art,” Art Journal 59, No. 1 (Summer 2000) > PDF
Biggs, Bryan, Angela Dimitraki, and Judinder Lamba. Independent Practices Representation, Location and History in Contemporary Visual Arts. Liverpool, England: Bluecoat Arts Center, 2000.
Poshyananda, Apinan. “Eat Me ... Me Coma.” In XXIV Bienal de São Paulo: “Roteiros. Roteiros. Roteiros. Roteiros. Roteiros. Roteiros. Roteiros.,” 164–79. São Paulo: Fundação Bienal de São Paulo, 1998 > PDF
Jain, Madhu. “Material Obsession.” India Today, November 24, 1997.
Mukul, Akshaya. “Like a Bridge over Troubled Waters.” The Pioneer, September 28, 1997.
Chambers, Eddie. Review of “Tampered Surface,” Art Monthly, no. 190 (October 1995) > PDF