Veiled Women welcome visitors to art gallery with Nudes


	Veiled Women welcome visitors to art gallery with Nudes

Gul Agha

9-18-2007 9:13 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/c576adfd-4e8b-4fad-9c5d-5e2a8b2b1cbc/921D5A22-8236-4972-9402-E9B8F6A69F5B/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://worldblog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/09/17/364847.aspx" href="http://worldblog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/09/17/364847.aspx" style="font-size: 11px;">worldblog.msnbc.msn.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://worldblog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/09/17/364847.aspx"><TABLE width="1" cellspacing="5" cellpadding="0"><TBODY><TR><TD align="left"><IMG hspace="0" border="0" src="http://msnbcmedia3.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photos/070917/070917_burqa_vmed_9a.standard.jpg" /></TD></TR><TR><TD align="left" class="credit">Carol Grisanti / NBC News</TD></TR><TR><TD class="caption">Sculptures of burqa clad women welcome visitors to Pakistan’s new National Art Gallery.</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://worldblog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/09/17/364847.aspx"><P>The white painted exhibit halls are light and airy. A combination of interconnecting architectural spaces is accessible from a spiraling light brick ramp walkway. Every gallery looks into each other and, according to Pasha, communicates with each other. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://worldblog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/09/17/364847.aspx"><P>"We are in Gallery Six – the landscapes," he pointed out. "Gallery Six looks down on Gallery One – which is all about love – so love is communicating with landscape."</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://worldblog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/09/17/364847.aspx"><P>It was all beginning to make sense – until we reached the nudes in gallery 10. No one seemed to be communicating with them.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://worldblog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/09/17/364847.aspx"><P>Here was an entire room devoted to a raw display of the human form – quite rare in an Islamic country. But just in case someone might be offended, they were all discreetly "tucked away" in one of the top-floor galleries.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://worldblog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/09/17/364847.aspx"><P>"No pictures," he said.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://worldblog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/09/17/364847.aspx"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/worldblog.msnbc.msn.com/img/56EA851B-67E7-4509-A593-DAB8E08CF8B4" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://worldblog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/09/17/364847.aspx"><table background="undefined" bgcolor=""><tr><TD class="caption">Inside the sculpture gallery in Pakistan’s new National Art Gallery.</TD></tr></table></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/921D5A22-8236-4972-9402-E9B8F6A69F5B/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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