Art, power and single women in Pakistan
In Karachi, the men might buy the art, but it's women — many single and young — who control the market.
KARACHI, PAKISTAN — Defying the global downturn in art and perhaps common sense, another gallery opened in Karachi last month, the second in three weeks. Both are run by women.
More intriguing than the dynamics of the market is the fact that the entire Pakistani art scene is run by women, single women.
Sumbul Khan is a spritely thirtysomething of vaguely Pathan...
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